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2018 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 25th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1317th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2018
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 28, 2018 01:30 | September 28, 2018 08:15 | 6h 45m | 3,854 | 6,083 |
| 2 | January 29, 2018 00:00 | January 29, 2018 05:00 | 5h | 1,979 | 3,692 |
| 3 | September 28, 2018 16:00 | September 28, 2018 16:45 | 45m | 1,208 | 310 |
| 4 | March 23, 2018 00:30 | March 23, 2018 04:45 | 4h 15m | 1,032 | 2,204 |
| 5 | April 16, 2018 18:45 | April 16, 2018 19:45 | 1h | 1,030 | 542 |
| 6 | February 19, 2018 15:45 | February 19, 2018 20:30 | 4h 45m | 1,028 | 818 |
| 7 | April 2, 2018 01:45 | April 2, 2018 08:15 | 6h 30m | 1,013 | 2,967 |
| 8 | May 16, 2018 15:45 | May 16, 2018 17:00 | 1h 15m | 950 | 1,113 |
| 9 | April 16, 2018 11:45 | April 16, 2018 16:00 | 4h 15m | 926 | 676 |
| 10 | June 17, 2018 10:45 | June 17, 2018 12:15 | 1h 30m | 855 | 1,281 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 38 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.64 | 3.3 hrs | 2.41 |
| 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 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/florida/hardee-county