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2024 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 34.3 hours, a total of 10.8M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 23rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 283rd 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 Polk 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 08:15 | November 13, 2024 05:45 | 34d 21h | 209,976 | 10.0M |
| 2 | September 26, 2024 07:15 | September 30, 2024 04:00 | 3d 20h | 10,815 | 99K |
| 3 | August 4, 2024 06:30 | August 8, 2024 22:00 | 4d 15h | 9,121 | 52K |
| 4 | September 18, 2024 12:00 | September 20, 2024 02:45 | 1d 14h | 7,915 | 11K |
| 5 | May 24, 2024 09:15 | June 9, 2024 06:30 | 15d 21h | 6,506 | 24K |
| 6 | August 11, 2024 15:45 | August 14, 2024 11:00 | 2d 19h | 6,339 | 19K |
| 7 | June 9, 2024 09:30 | June 22, 2024 02:00 | 12d 16h | 6,194 | 86K |
| 8 | June 28, 2024 03:45 | June 30, 2024 00:00 | 1d 20h | 5,765 | 10K |
| 9 | December 29, 2024 21:00 | December 30, 2024 10:00 | 13h | 5,410 | 10K |
| 10 | March 30, 2024 13:00 | April 2, 2024 03:30 | 2d 14h | 5,223 | 2,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 157 reached 100+ customers, 71 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Florida, LLC | 2024 | 41.7 hrs | 2.21 | 84 min | 0.95 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 24.3 hrs | 5.83 | 1.5 hrs | 1.13 |
| Withlacoochee River Elec Coop | 2024 | 22.0 hrs | 2.79 | 79 min | 1.18 |
| Tampa Electric Co | 2024 | 70.7 hrs | 3.56 | 70 min | 1.03 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/polk-county