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2022 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 32.0 hours, a total of 10.0M customer-hours (Florida average 20.9 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 67 Florida counties and 159th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2022
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 26, 2022 05:30 | October 9, 2022 11:30 | 13d 6h | 203,470 | 9.3M |
| 2 | April 1, 2022 05:00 | April 5, 2022 21:15 | 4d 16h | 12,373 | 35K |
| 3 | April 30, 2022 17:15 | May 3, 2022 03:00 | 2d 9h | 6,824 | 18K |
| 4 | September 2, 2022 11:15 | September 4, 2022 16:45 | 2d 5h | 6,003 | 20K |
| 5 | July 16, 2022 19:30 | July 19, 2022 01:15 | 2d 5h | 5,910 | 9,649 |
| 6 | August 9, 2022 12:30 | August 12, 2022 02:30 | 2d 14h | 5,699 | 11K |
| 7 | July 12, 2022 06:15 | July 16, 2022 04:00 | 3d 21h | 5,671 | 21K |
| 8 | November 8, 2022 09:45 | November 12, 2022 05:45 | 3d 20h | 5,624 | 41K |
| 9 | June 23, 2022 23:45 | June 27, 2022 07:00 | 3d 7h | 5,561 | 27K |
| 10 | January 18, 2022 09:45 | January 19, 2022 02:15 | 16h 30m | 5,494 | 2,776 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 196 reached 100+ customers, 92 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 14.5 hrs | 1.74 | 1.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2022 | 24.8 hrs | 2.02 | 2.9 hrs | 1.50 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2022 | 3.7 hrs | 1.63 | 1.7 hrs | 1.40 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2022 | 17.1 hrs | 2.25 | 67 min | 1.01 |
| 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 98% of Florida's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/florida/polk-county