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2024 Hardee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Hardee County, FL went without power for an average of 38.3 hours, a total of 451K customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 67 Florida counties and 257th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Hardee County, 2024
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 9, 2024 16:30 | October 14, 2024 19:45 | 5d 3h | 9,572 | 431K |
| 2 | July 19, 2024 11:15 | July 19, 2024 13:15 | 2h | 1,943 | 3,878 |
| 3 | August 15, 2024 20:45 | August 15, 2024 22:00 | 1h 15m | 1,366 | 1,366 |
| 4 | October 15, 2024 01:00 | October 15, 2024 01:15 | 15m | 1,023 | 256 |
| 5 | May 28, 2024 13:45 | May 28, 2024 16:00 | 2h 15m | 1,020 | 736 |
| 6 | May 29, 2024 14:15 | May 29, 2024 15:30 | 1h 15m | 817 | 803 |
| 7 | March 12, 2024 12:15 | March 12, 2024 13:00 | 45m | 706 | 530 |
| 8 | February 3, 2024 03:00 | February 3, 2024 04:30 | 1h 30m | 689 | 559 |
| 9 | February 3, 2024 12:30 | February 3, 2024 14:15 | 1h 45m | 689 | 174 |
| 10 | September 24, 2024 12:15 | September 24, 2024 12:30 | 15m | 615 | 154 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 25 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 11.7 hrs | 1.04 | 46 min | 0.44 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 24.3 hrs | 5.83 | 1.5 hrs | 1.13 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/florida/hardee-county