Operating region annual report
2023 Arecibo Region, PR Power Outage Report
LUMA Energy's Arecibo operating region, as EAGLE-I reports Puerto Rico. It covers Adjuntas, Arecibo, Barceloneta, Camuy, Ciales, Florida, Hatillo, Jayuya, Manatí, Morovis, Quebradillas, Utuado, Vega Alta and Vega Baja. Source: LUMA's operational regions map (2/01/2024).
In 2023, customers in Arecibo Region, PR went without power for an average of 37.7 hours, a total of 7.7M customer-hours (Puerto Rico average 34.3 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 6 Puerto Rico regions.
Compared with PR, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Puerto Rico customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Arecibo Region, 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 | July 17, 2023 00:30 | July 27, 2023 02:15 | 10d 1h | 38,195 | 463K |
| 2 | June 8, 2023 13:15 | June 11, 2023 12:15 | 2d 23h | 24,613 | 91K |
| 3 | November 17, 2023 00:45 | November 24, 2023 00:30 | 6d 23h | 23,314 | 195K |
| 4 | May 11, 2023 21:15 | June 7, 2023 15:45 | 26d 18h | 23,269 | 920K |
| 5 | August 23, 2023 03:00 | September 17, 2023 19:15 | 25d 16h | 21,928 | 696K |
| 6 | September 17, 2023 20:15 | October 1, 2023 01:15 | 13d 5h | 21,421 | 311K |
| 7 | June 28, 2023 14:45 | July 16, 2023 22:45 | 18d 8h | 20,721 | 533K |
| 8 | October 1, 2023 02:00 | October 19, 2023 00:30 | 17d 22h | 17,542 | 245K |
| 9 | July 27, 2023 06:15 | August 23, 2023 01:00 | 26d 18h | 17,216 | 699K |
| 10 | June 11, 2023 13:45 | June 26, 2023 22:00 | 15d 8h | 16,192 | 330K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 50 reached 100+ customers, 41 reached 1,000+ customers, 19 reached 10,000+ customers.
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 Puerto Rico's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 203,086 customers (the sum of ORNL's modeled municipio customer counts), 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. Arecibo Region has data for 2021–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Arecibo Region, PR annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 14, 2026 13:35 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/puerto-rico/arecibo-region