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2023 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 30K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2120th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 31, 2023 19:00 | August 1, 2023 03:00 | 8h | 2,161 | 3,153 |
| 2 | August 7, 2023 07:45 | August 7, 2023 14:00 | 6h 15m | 1,911 | 692 |
| 3 | August 11, 2023 17:15 | August 11, 2023 19:00 | 1h 45m | 1,524 | 2,243 |
| 4 | July 25, 2023 18:15 | July 25, 2023 19:30 | 1h 15m | 1,352 | 455 |
| 5 | July 25, 2023 13:30 | July 25, 2023 16:15 | 2h 45m | 1,350 | 340 |
| 6 | June 19, 2023 15:00 | June 19, 2023 20:15 | 5h 15m | 1,036 | 328 |
| 7 | September 30, 2023 22:00 | October 1, 2023 06:15 | 8h 15m | 803 | 3,257 |
| 8 | June 19, 2023 13:00 | June 19, 2023 14:00 | 1h | 782 | 392 |
| 9 | August 16, 2023 20:00 | August 17, 2023 03:30 | 7h 30m | 736 | 252 |
| 10 | January 5, 2023 18:45 | January 5, 2023 21:00 | 2h 15m | 693 | 175 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 37 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 min | 0.51 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.57 | 2.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/florida/hardee-county