Power outages in Florida, by utility
Across 20 Florida utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 2.3 hours in 2025 — that is 1.3× better than the national median. Florida ranks #29 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 2.3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 8 hrs
- Okefenoke Rural El Member Corp
- Best utility
- 0.3 hrs
- Beaches Energy Services
- Utilities reporting
- 20
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Florida utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Okefenoke Rural El Member CorpCooperative | 8 hrs479 min | 3.7 | 2.7× worse |
| 2 | Glades Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 7.1 hrs427 min | 3.2 | 2.4× worse |
| 3 | Talquin Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 7 hrs421 min | 3.6 | 2.4× worse |
| 4 | West Florida El Coop Assn, IncCooperative | 6.9 hrs413 min | 3.9 | 2.3× worse |
| 5 | Gulf Coast Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 5.6 hrs336 min | 2.8 | 1.9× worse |
| 6 | Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (FL)Cooperative | 3.8 hrs230 min | 2.4 | 1.3× worse |
| 7 | Suwannee Valley Elec Coop IncCooperative | 3.5 hrs212 min | 3.2 | 1.2× worse |
| 8 | Clay Electric Cooperative, Inc - (FL)Cooperative | 3.4 hrs205 min | 2.6 | 1.2× worse |
| 9 | Peace River Electric Coop, IncCooperative | 2.6 hrs155 min | 1.6 | 1.1× better |
| 10 | New Smyrna Beach City ofMunicipal | 2.4 hrs144 min | 1.5 | 1.2× better |
| 11 | Central Florida Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 2.2 hrs134 min | 1.9 | 1.3× better |
| 12 | Tampa Electric CoInvestor Owned | 1.9 hrs112 min | 1.8 | 1.6× better |
| 13 | Withlacoochee River Elec CoopCooperative | 1.8 hrs105 min | 1.4 | 1.7× better |
| 14 | Choctawhatche Elec Coop, IncCooperative | 1.5 hrs88 min | 0.9 | 2.0× better |
| 15 | Duke Energy Florida, LLCInvestor Owned | 1.4 hrs87 min | 1.0 | 2.1× better |
| 16 | Florida Keys El Coop Assn, IncCooperative | 0.8 hrs49 min | 0.9 | 3.6× better |
| 17 | Utility Board of the City of Key West, FMunicipal | 0.8 hrs48 min | 1.5 | 3.7× better |
| 18 | Florida Power & Light CoInvestor Owned | 0.8 hrs47 min | 0.5 | 3.8× better |
| 19 | Gainesville Regional UtilitiesMunicipal | 0.6 hrs37 min | 0.8 | 4.8× better |
| 20 | Beaches Energy ServicesMunicipal | 0.3 hrs20 min | 0.4 | 8.9× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.