County annual report · FIPS 12049
2019 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 3.8 hours, a total of 45K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1377th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 6, 2019 22:45 | June 7, 2019 07:45 | 9h | 2,376 | 7,300 |
| 2 | August 3, 2019 11:15 | August 3, 2019 19:15 | 8h | 1,786 | 2,468 |
| 3 | November 11, 2019 14:00 | November 11, 2019 19:00 | 5h | 1,140 | 1,090 |
| 4 | October 10, 2019 17:15 | October 10, 2019 20:15 | 3h | 1,067 | 1,070 |
| 5 | June 16, 2019 06:00 | June 16, 2019 13:00 | 7h | 1,000 | 5,994 |
| 6 | December 2, 2019 14:45 | December 2, 2019 15:00 | 15m | 954 | 239 |
| 7 | October 16, 2019 18:15 | October 16, 2019 19:15 | 1h | 888 | 888 |
| 8 | July 17, 2019 22:15 | July 19, 2019 00:45 | 1d 2h | 790 | 2,991 |
| 9 | November 19, 2019 20:30 | November 19, 2019 21:15 | 45m | 732 | 367 |
| 10 | January 22, 2019 14:15 | January 22, 2019 22:00 | 7h 45m | 710 | 1,307 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 51 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/florida/hardee-county