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2024 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 64.5 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 67 Florida counties and 155th 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 Highlands 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 18:30 | October 17, 2024 17:15 | 7d 22h | 51,117 | 2.4M |
| 2 | July 12, 2024 02:30 | July 12, 2024 04:00 | 1h 30m | 3,355 | 1,222 |
| 3 | July 14, 2024 18:45 | July 15, 2024 04:30 | 9h 45m | 3,337 | 3,880 |
| 4 | August 1, 2024 22:30 | August 2, 2024 09:15 | 10h 45m | 3,147 | 4,391 |
| 5 | December 11, 2024 16:00 | December 11, 2024 21:45 | 5h 45m | 2,989 | 1,586 |
| 6 | September 14, 2024 23:45 | September 15, 2024 04:45 | 5h | 2,697 | 4,008 |
| 7 | September 29, 2024 02:00 | September 29, 2024 09:15 | 7h 15m | 2,544 | 8,360 |
| 8 | September 26, 2024 07:30 | September 28, 2024 03:15 | 1d 19h | 2,521 | 20K |
| 9 | October 28, 2024 11:45 | October 29, 2024 04:45 | 17h | 2,407 | 3,024 |
| 10 | June 19, 2024 12:30 | June 20, 2024 01:00 | 12h 30m | 2,284 | 623 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 95 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 24.3 hrs | 5.83 | 1.5 hrs | 1.13 |
| Glades Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 37.5 hrs | 5.74 | 7.5 hrs | 3.72 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/highlands-county