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2021 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 23K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 67 Florida counties and 2233rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 4, 2021 09:30 | December 4, 2021 12:30 | 3h | 1,914 | 2,396 |
| 2 | April 1, 2021 13:45 | April 1, 2021 16:30 | 2h 45m | 1,075 | 1,159 |
| 3 | July 24, 2021 00:15 | July 24, 2021 05:00 | 4h 45m | 1,013 | 1,823 |
| 4 | February 19, 2021 17:00 | February 19, 2021 22:00 | 5h | 876 | 481 |
| 5 | November 15, 2021 05:15 | November 15, 2021 06:45 | 1h 30m | 864 | 989 |
| 6 | January 8, 2021 14:30 | January 8, 2021 17:45 | 3h 15m | 661 | 1,651 |
| 7 | March 16, 2021 17:15 | March 17, 2021 00:30 | 7h 15m | 364 | 1,751 |
| 8 | July 27, 2021 19:15 | July 27, 2021 21:15 | 2h | 323 | 269 |
| 9 | December 15, 2021 15:45 | December 15, 2021 16:30 | 45m | 201 | 151 |
| 10 | September 15, 2021 13:00 | September 15, 2021 16:30 | 3h 30m | 198 | 641 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 3 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 55 min | 0.58 | 45 min | 0.51 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 |
| 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 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/florida/hardee-county