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2020 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 22K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2305th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2020
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 25, 2020 13:30 | March 25, 2020 15:45 | 2h 15m | 1,144 | 1,435 |
| 2 | June 8, 2020 00:45 | June 8, 2020 18:30 | 17h 45m | 1,128 | 2,839 |
| 3 | April 18, 2020 16:45 | April 18, 2020 20:45 | 4h | 962 | 569 |
| 4 | September 27, 2020 23:00 | September 28, 2020 02:45 | 3h 45m | 880 | 236 |
| 5 | August 14, 2020 21:45 | August 15, 2020 05:30 | 7h 45m | 685 | 1,811 |
| 6 | April 29, 2020 16:00 | April 29, 2020 17:45 | 1h 45m | 631 | 620 |
| 7 | March 24, 2020 13:45 | March 24, 2020 19:45 | 6h | 496 | 1,130 |
| 8 | October 17, 2020 01:30 | October 17, 2020 01:45 | 15m | 361 | 90 |
| 9 | June 3, 2020 15:00 | June 3, 2020 16:30 | 1h 30m | 359 | 241 |
| 10 | September 30, 2020 09:45 | September 30, 2020 14:15 | 4h 30m | 321 | 456 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 32 reached 100+ customers, 2 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 70 min | 0.75 | 49 min | 0.59 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/florida/hardee-county