Power Outages in Okeechobee County, FL
No live outage feed is available for Okeechobee County, FL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 2.1 hours.
Okeechobee County, FL is served by local tracked utilities.
Okeechobee County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Okeechobee County right now.
Okeechobee County has been under 7 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 13, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×4
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×2
- Heat Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Okeechobee County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Okeechobee County went about 2.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 38,400 customers.
Worst year here was 2017 (peak 38,400 customers out) · decade average 15.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 663 | 5,789 | 4.2 |
| 2016 | 653 | 5,713 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 585 | 38,400 | 91.6 |
| 2018 | 631 | 3,891 | 2.1 |
| 2019 | 653 | 2,892 | 2.6 |
| 2020 | 655 | 5,041 | 4.2 |
| 2021 | 641 | 3,903 | 2.8 |
| 2022 | 572 | 17,430 | 30.1 |
| 2023 | 600 | 4,407 | 2.7 |
| 2024 | 567 | 8,011 | 16.3 |
| 2025 | 560 | 11,776 | 2.1 |
Relatively High hurricanes exposure · 15.2 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Okeechobee County: FAQ
- How often does Okeechobee County, FL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Okeechobee County, FL logged 560 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 2.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Okeechobee County, FL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 38,400 customers without power, beginning September 9, 2017 and lasting about 10d 9h.
- Is there a power outage in Okeechobee County, FL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Okeechobee County, FL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Okeechobee County.
34972
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/12093 and /api/v1/counties/12093/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Florida customers).