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2015 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 39K customer-hours (Florida average 1.6 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 67 Florida counties and 843rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 21, 2015 17:15 | August 21, 2015 17:45 | 30m | 4,236 | 1,652 |
| 2 | June 28, 2015 08:30 | June 28, 2015 10:15 | 1h 45m | 2,098 | 3,246 |
| 3 | February 27, 2015 03:15 | February 27, 2015 03:30 | 15m | 1,769 | 442 |
| 4 | June 14, 2015 04:45 | June 14, 2015 06:15 | 1h 30m | 1,761 | 2,237 |
| 5 | June 19, 2015 16:00 | June 19, 2015 17:15 | 1h 15m | 1,755 | 1,108 |
| 6 | December 3, 2015 18:45 | December 4, 2015 01:15 | 6h 30m | 1,611 | 1,910 |
| 7 | May 12, 2015 20:45 | May 12, 2015 22:30 | 1h 45m | 1,469 | 369 |
| 8 | June 19, 2015 19:00 | June 20, 2015 04:00 | 9h | 1,142 | 2,997 |
| 9 | July 6, 2015 18:15 | July 7, 2015 01:45 | 7h 30m | 1,059 | 1,059 |
| 10 | September 15, 2015 17:15 | September 15, 2015 21:45 | 4h 30m | 906 | 2,048 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 44 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 Hardee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 | 2015 | 65 min | 0.82 | 62 min | 0.79 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 |
| City of Wauchula - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 11,796 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. Hardee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hardee County, FL annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/florida/hardee-county