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2023 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 145K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1727th 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 Highlands 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 | August 16, 2023 11:15 | August 17, 2023 20:00 | 1d 8h | 3,281 | 5,673 |
| 2 | May 10, 2023 13:30 | May 10, 2023 21:15 | 7h 45m | 2,713 | 2,880 |
| 3 | June 20, 2023 07:00 | June 23, 2023 06:00 | 2d 23h | 2,652 | 7,976 |
| 4 | July 13, 2023 21:15 | July 14, 2023 03:30 | 6h 15m | 2,530 | 2,607 |
| 5 | April 30, 2023 06:00 | May 1, 2023 01:30 | 19h 30m | 2,307 | 4,083 |
| 6 | April 11, 2023 01:30 | April 11, 2023 06:00 | 4h 30m | 2,286 | 2,690 |
| 7 | April 12, 2023 23:30 | April 13, 2023 06:45 | 7h 15m | 2,249 | 7,088 |
| 8 | July 25, 2023 08:45 | July 26, 2023 01:45 | 17h | 2,246 | 1,465 |
| 9 | January 3, 2023 16:30 | January 3, 2023 23:15 | 6h 45m | 2,235 | 2,254 |
| 10 | January 25, 2023 08:45 | January 25, 2023 21:45 | 13h | 2,120 | 3,233 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 95 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Highlands 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 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.08 | 84 min | 0.96 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.57 | 2.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 6.3 hrs | 0.82 | 6.3 hrs | 0.82 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 39,050 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. Highlands County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Highlands 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/highlands-county