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2023 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 865K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 39th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2030th 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 Polk 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 16, 2023 08:15 | July 22, 2023 04:45 | 5d 20h | 21,061 | 31K |
| 2 | April 25, 2023 06:30 | April 29, 2023 04:00 | 3d 21h | 14,637 | 67K |
| 3 | February 1, 2023 06:45 | February 1, 2023 23:15 | 16h 30m | 10,671 | 2,849 |
| 4 | February 23, 2023 14:00 | February 24, 2023 06:45 | 16h 45m | 10,454 | 9,089 |
| 5 | March 5, 2023 06:45 | March 7, 2023 06:00 | 1d 23h | 9,703 | 34K |
| 6 | April 11, 2023 13:45 | April 13, 2023 11:00 | 1d 21h | 7,365 | 44K |
| 7 | June 22, 2023 10:30 | June 28, 2023 06:45 | 5d 20h | 6,852 | 23K |
| 8 | August 29, 2023 18:30 | September 2, 2023 14:30 | 3d 20h | 6,759 | 14K |
| 9 | June 16, 2023 05:30 | June 21, 2023 23:45 | 5d 18h | 6,421 | 45K |
| 10 | April 29, 2023 11:15 | May 1, 2023 08:30 | 1d 21h | 5,940 | 45K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 204 reached 100+ customers, 89 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2023 | 3.0 hrs | 1.08 | 84 min | 0.96 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.57 | 2.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2023 | 2.3 hrs | 1.44 | 1.5 hrs | 1.29 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2023 | 83 min | 1.42 | 61 min | 0.97 |
| 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 n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; 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, 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/polk-county