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2017 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 74.9 hours, a total of 883K customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 67 Florida counties and 27th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 10, 2017 10:30 | September 27, 2017 21:30 | 17d 11h | 15,438 | 833K |
| 2 | June 25, 2017 22:30 | June 26, 2017 04:30 | 6h | 4,188 | 4,346 |
| 3 | August 18, 2017 22:30 | August 19, 2017 05:30 | 7h | 4,037 | 4,238 |
| 4 | May 27, 2017 00:00 | May 27, 2017 07:00 | 7h | 2,364 | 11K |
| 5 | June 1, 2017 11:45 | June 1, 2017 13:00 | 1h 15m | 2,311 | 2,889 |
| 6 | July 8, 2017 01:45 | July 8, 2017 04:15 | 2h 30m | 1,773 | 916 |
| 7 | March 20, 2017 20:15 | March 20, 2017 22:15 | 2h | 1,205 | 604 |
| 8 | September 2, 2017 21:00 | September 3, 2017 02:45 | 5h 45m | 1,178 | 1,334 |
| 9 | June 27, 2017 15:30 | June 27, 2017 19:15 | 3h 45m | 1,092 | 402 |
| 10 | July 20, 2017 05:45 | July 20, 2017 08:00 | 2h 15m | 953 | 1,911 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 44 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 66.0 hrs | 2.00 | 59 min | 0.69 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 56.6 hrs | 3.27 | 2.3 hrs | 1.47 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/florida/hardee-county