When will the power be back in Highlands County, FL?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Highlands County, FL right now.

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Elsewhere in Florida: 5,569 customers reported out — statewide status.

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Who serves Highlands County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Florida, Glades Electric Cooperative and 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. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Highlands County, FL

Last significant outage: Oct 13, 2026 — peaked at 375 customers, restored in ~5 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 15 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr (median).

Every outage behind these figures (15)

Began	Peak out	Restored in	Weather
Oct 13, 2026	375	~5 hr	no severe weather
Oct 8, 2026	247	~3.5 hr	no severe weather
Sep 10, 2026	374	~2 hr	no severe weather
Sep 5, 2026	243	~5 hr	no severe weather
Sep 4, 2026	353	~3 hr	no severe weather
Sep 1, 2026	272	~1.5 hr	no severe weather
Aug 29, 2026	1,365	~11 hr	weather alert
Aug 26, 2026	501	~7.2 hr	weather alert
Aug 20, 2026	408	~4 hr	heat event
Aug 14, 2026	210	~5.5 hr	heat event
Aug 7, 2026	1,675	~3.5 hr	no severe weather
Aug 6, 2026	635	~4 hr	no severe weather
Aug 5, 2026	1,286	~3.8 hr	no severe weather
Aug 3, 2026	456	~6.3 hr	no severe weather
Jul 28, 2026	274	~5.2 hr	no severe weather

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Highlands County, FL

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 831 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 3 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.3 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: ~52,875 customers out in September 2017, restored after about 9.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Cities with their own pages in Highlands County

Avon Park · Sebring

Communities in Highlands County include Sebring, Avon Park and Lake Placid. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Highlands County, FL?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Highlands include Duke Energy Florida, Glades Electric Cooperative, Florida Power & Light and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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