When will the power be back in DeSoto County, FL?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in DeSoto County, FL right now.
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Elsewhere in Florida: 830 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves DeSoto County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Florida Power & Light, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Peace River Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — DeSoto County, FL
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — DeSoto County, FL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
343 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Florida norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~29,686 customers out in September 2017, restored after about 9.1 days. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in DeSoto County include Arcadia, Arcadia East, Arcadia West and Southeast Arcadia. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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