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2016 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 510K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1481st of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 26, 2016 17:45 | March 28, 2016 02:30 | 1d 8h | 9,579 | 21K |
| 2 | May 28, 2016 12:30 | May 31, 2016 07:15 | 2d 18h | 9,411 | 31K |
| 3 | June 3, 2016 08:15 | June 8, 2016 06:15 | 4d 22h | 8,184 | 38K |
| 4 | January 17, 2016 09:00 | January 18, 2016 00:15 | 15h 15m | 6,559 | 21K |
| 5 | March 24, 2016 22:15 | March 25, 2016 17:15 | 19h | 6,436 | 20K |
| 6 | May 4, 2016 10:15 | May 6, 2016 04:15 | 1d 18h | 5,873 | 9,443 |
| 7 | September 29, 2016 04:45 | September 30, 2016 03:45 | 23h | 5,655 | 6,876 |
| 8 | July 15, 2016 18:30 | July 17, 2016 09:30 | 1d 15h | 4,979 | 14K |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 11:45 | July 19, 2016 02:15 | 14h 30m | 4,227 | 4,840 |
| 10 | October 7, 2016 05:15 | October 8, 2016 04:45 | 23h 30m | 4,030 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 185 reached 100+ customers, 74 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 Polk County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2016 | 6.0 hrs | 1.57 | 1.7 hrs | 1.22 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.1 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2016 | 3.2 hrs | 2.41 | 2.6 hrs | 2.26 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2016 | 1.7 hrs | 1.45 | 1.7 hrs | 1.45 |
| City of Lakeland - (FL) | 2013 | 78 min | 1.23 | 78 min | 1.23 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Bartow - (FL) | - | - | - | - | - |
| City of Fort Meade - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 313,954 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. Polk County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Polk County, FL annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/florida/polk-county