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2024 Hernando County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hernando County, FL went without power for an average of 29.8 hours, a total of 3.2M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 67 Florida counties and 326th 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 Hernando 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 | October 9, 2024 08:30 | October 27, 2024 23:30 | 18d 15h | 58,050 | 2.6M |
| 2 | September 26, 2024 11:45 | September 30, 2024 03:45 | 3d 16h | 20,658 | 439K |
| 3 | December 6, 2024 13:15 | December 7, 2024 01:00 | 11h 45m | 6,964 | 8,182 |
| 4 | November 6, 2024 12:15 | November 7, 2024 22:15 | 1d 10h | 4,433 | 1,878 |
| 5 | August 22, 2024 09:00 | August 22, 2024 17:30 | 8h 30m | 2,969 | 4,697 |
| 6 | April 12, 2024 15:00 | April 12, 2024 17:45 | 2h 45m | 2,859 | 1,440 |
| 7 | March 13, 2024 12:00 | March 13, 2024 15:15 | 3h 15m | 2,288 | 1,173 |
| 8 | July 24, 2024 11:15 | July 26, 2024 00:45 | 1d 13h | 2,283 | 8,733 |
| 9 | October 6, 2024 22:45 | October 7, 2024 02:30 | 3h 45m | 2,022 | 1,028 |
| 10 | December 29, 2024 18:45 | December 29, 2024 23:30 | 4h 45m | 1,960 | 2,107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 146 reached 100+ customers, 30 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Hernando 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2024 | 41.7 hrs | 2.21 | 84 min | 0.95 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2024 | 22.0 hrs | 2.79 | 79 min | 1.18 |
| Sumter Electric Coop, Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 108,453 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. Hernando County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hernando 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/hernando-county