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2025 Polk County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Polk County, FL went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 735K customer-hours (Florida average 2.1 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2295th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Polk County, 2025
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 14, 2025 08:00 | July 17, 2025 03:15 | 2d 19h | 13,566 | 27K |
| 2 | June 27, 2025 17:30 | June 28, 2025 06:15 | 12h 45m | 12,364 | 32K |
| 3 | February 13, 2025 13:45 | February 14, 2025 04:45 | 15h | 9,153 | 17K |
| 4 | May 4, 2025 11:30 | May 5, 2025 05:15 | 17h 45m | 9,136 | 37K |
| 5 | May 10, 2025 11:45 | May 11, 2025 10:30 | 22h 45m | 7,526 | 16K |
| 6 | May 24, 2025 11:00 | May 26, 2025 06:15 | 1d 19h | 6,426 | 22K |
| 7 | June 19, 2025 08:15 | June 22, 2025 09:45 | 3d 1h | 6,074 | 14K |
| 8 | October 6, 2025 10:45 | October 7, 2025 11:45 | 1d 1h | 5,693 | 3,454 |
| 9 | March 17, 2025 11:45 | March 17, 2025 20:45 | 9h | 5,025 | 3,538 |
| 10 | November 2, 2025 05:15 | November 5, 2025 00:15 | 2d 19h | 4,698 | 8,823 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 190 reached 100+ customers, 89 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/florida/polk-county