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2024 Columbia County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Columbia County, FL went without power for an average of 84.1 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 67 Florida counties and 110th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Columbia County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 26, 2024 22:30 | October 8, 2024 08:45 | 11d 10h | 34,768 | 2.3M |
| 2 | August 4, 2024 17:45 | August 16, 2024 20:30 | 12d 2h | 20,731 | 690K |
| 3 | May 9, 2024 22:15 | May 15, 2024 04:30 | 5d 6h | 14,573 | 153K |
| 4 | October 9, 2024 11:30 | October 10, 2024 21:00 | 1d 9h | 3,156 | 15K |
| 5 | August 2, 2024 18:45 | August 3, 2024 17:30 | 22h 45m | 2,739 | 3,699 |
| 6 | July 20, 2024 19:00 | July 21, 2024 21:15 | 1d 2h | 2,690 | 4,792 |
| 7 | January 23, 2024 12:30 | January 23, 2024 23:00 | 10h 30m | 2,373 | 3,311 |
| 8 | May 31, 2024 07:00 | May 31, 2024 17:45 | 10h 45m | 2,338 | 1,778 |
| 9 | August 29, 2024 21:30 | August 30, 2024 09:00 | 11h 30m | 2,167 | 3,285 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 16:00 | January 10, 2024 03:30 | 11h 30m | 1,650 | 4,199 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 79 reached 100+ customers, 13 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Columbia County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2024, 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 | 2024 | 11.7 hrs | 1.04 | 46 min | 0.44 |
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2024 | 41.7 hrs | 2.21 | 84 min | 0.95 |
| Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL) | 2024 | 35.7 hrs | 5.30 | 2.9 hrs | 2.80 |
| Suwannee Valley Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 121.2 hrs | 9.20 | 4.9 hrs | 4.17 |
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 2024; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 38,562 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. Columbia County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Columbia County, FL annual power outage report, 2024, 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/2024/florida/columbia-county