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2023 DeSoto County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in DeSoto County, FL went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 43K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2275th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in DeSoto County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 25, 2023 13:30 | January 25, 2023 20:15 | 6h 45m | 2,691 | 2,386 |
| 2 | May 22, 2023 15:15 | May 23, 2023 00:15 | 9h | 2,677 | 823 |
| 3 | August 16, 2023 18:45 | August 17, 2023 00:00 | 5h 15m | 2,587 | 799 |
| 4 | May 10, 2023 01:00 | May 10, 2023 02:15 | 1h 15m | 1,695 | 425 |
| 5 | August 29, 2023 17:30 | August 31, 2023 03:15 | 1d 9h | 1,033 | 6,397 |
| 6 | July 16, 2023 13:00 | July 16, 2023 21:30 | 8h 30m | 910 | 502 |
| 7 | March 28, 2023 22:15 | March 28, 2023 23:45 | 1h 30m | 905 | 228 |
| 8 | June 2, 2023 13:30 | June 2, 2023 16:30 | 3h | 771 | 648 |
| 9 | April 2, 2023 15:00 | April 2, 2023 17:30 | 2h 30m | 647 | 676 |
| 10 | April 4, 2023 12:00 | April 4, 2023 16:30 | 4h 30m | 642 | 178 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 47 reached 100+ customers, 5 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving DeSoto County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 min | 0.51 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.57 | 2.2 hrs | 1.56 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 21,129 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. DeSoto County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), DeSoto County, FL annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/florida/desoto-county