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2020 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 585K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 67 Florida counties and 2313th 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 Polk 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 | October 19, 2020 04:45 | October 22, 2020 02:15 | 2d 21h | 16,293 | 12K |
| 2 | April 5, 2020 13:15 | April 6, 2020 22:30 | 1d 9h | 7,678 | 24K |
| 3 | July 14, 2020 03:15 | July 16, 2020 09:00 | 2d 5h | 5,727 | 11K |
| 4 | September 1, 2020 08:30 | September 2, 2020 21:45 | 1d 13h | 5,293 | 5,012 |
| 5 | September 27, 2020 11:15 | September 30, 2020 04:45 | 2d 17h | 4,329 | 17K |
| 6 | September 3, 2020 19:30 | September 5, 2020 05:00 | 1d 9h | 4,085 | 2,373 |
| 7 | April 17, 2020 01:00 | April 19, 2020 08:30 | 2d 7h | 3,896 | 7,685 |
| 8 | February 10, 2020 13:15 | February 11, 2020 01:00 | 11h 45m | 3,883 | 5,239 |
| 9 | June 25, 2020 11:15 | June 27, 2020 02:30 | 1d 15h | 3,764 | 14K |
| 10 | March 31, 2020 13:15 | April 1, 2020 21:00 | 1d 7h | 3,688 | 8,761 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 259 reached 100+ customers, 96 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 Polk 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.27 | 1.6 hrs | 1.16 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2020 | 2.1 hrs | 1.68 | 1.6 hrs | 1.57 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2020 | 79 min | 1.23 | 75 min | 0.95 |
| 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 97% of Florida's customers in 2020; 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, 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/polk-county