Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Hardee County Florida

16hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

25th most of 67 in Florida 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Irma · Sep 11, 2017 100% of customers out · 90% back in 6.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.8days Hurricane Irma, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 89% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 3.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 11,796 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Hardee's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Hardee, hours without power per customer

HardeeUS median countyFlorida average
0 20 40 60 80 100 3.2 ’15 2.0 ’16 75 ’17 3.6 ’18 3.8 ’19 1.9 ’20 2.0 ’21 71 ’22 2.3 ’23 38 ’24 1.2 ’25 FL 7.8 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 10, 2017 Hurricane Irma 11,796 100% 8.8 d 6.0 d 825k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 9,494 80% 4.6 d 3.6 d 542k
Oct 9, 2024 Hurricane Milton 9,572 81% 3.5 d 2.4 d 429k
Sep 29, 2022 Hurricane Ian 9,504 81% 23 h 22 h 216k
Sep 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian 8,707 74% 14 h 12 min 31k
May 26, 2017 No storm report 2,364 20% 6.5 h 1.8 h 11k
Jun 6, 2019 No storm report 2,376 20% 5.2 h 5.2 h 7.2k
May 22, 2022 No storm report 1,857 16% 4.5 h 1.5 h 7.0k
Jun 16, 2019 No storm report 1,000 8% 7.0 h 11 h 6.0k
Sep 27, 2018 No storm report 3,854 33% 4.8 h 1.2 h 6.0k
Jun 25, 2017 No storm report 4,188 36% 1.2 h 12 min 4.3k
Aug 18, 2017 Thunderstorms 4,037 34% 5.0 h 1.2 h 4.2k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +4h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Hardee from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 89%
  • No storm on record 11%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Hardee

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Florida Power & Light Co Investor Owned 47 45 0.46 14.6 5.3M
Peace River Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 155 155 1.62 12.8 62k
City of Wauchula FL – – – – 28k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

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About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 11,796 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →