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2025 Highlands County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Highlands County, FL went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 111K customer-hours (Florida average 2.1 hours). That ranks 22nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2123rd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Highlands County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 19, 2025 19:45 | November 19, 2025 21:15 | 1h 30m | 9,492 | 2,377 |
| 2 | December 17, 2025 13:15 | December 17, 2025 14:45 | 1h 30m | 3,523 | 3,516 |
| 3 | November 6, 2025 11:45 | November 6, 2025 21:45 | 10h | 2,994 | 790 |
| 4 | July 23, 2025 08:15 | July 24, 2025 07:45 | 23h 30m | 2,569 | 6,525 |
| 5 | December 10, 2025 18:15 | December 10, 2025 22:45 | 4h 30m | 2,254 | 1,384 |
| 6 | March 15, 2025 20:00 | March 16, 2025 03:45 | 7h 45m | 2,245 | 2,257 |
| 7 | April 30, 2025 12:45 | April 30, 2025 17:15 | 4h 30m | 2,200 | 1,668 |
| 8 | May 30, 2025 20:15 | May 30, 2025 21:45 | 1h 30m | 2,196 | 1,960 |
| 9 | March 17, 2025 06:00 | March 17, 2025 08:45 | 2h 45m | 2,161 | 1,988 |
| 10 | May 28, 2025 11:30 | May 29, 2025 08:15 | 20h 45m | 2,058 | 2,090 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 92 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/florida/highlands-county