⚡ No power in Hillsborough, FL? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Tampa Electric and Duke Energy Florida, 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 — Hillsborough County, FL
Last significant outage: Oct 7, 2026 — peaked at 327 customers, restored in ~7.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 7.6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Hillsborough County, FL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
3,646 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 47 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~6.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Florida norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~520,308 customers out in October 2024, restored after about 2.7 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 Hillsborough County
Communities in Hillsborough County include Tampa, Plant City, Temple Terrace, Apollo Beach, Balm, Bloomingdale, Brandon and Carrollwood. 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 Hillsborough County, FL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Hillsborough include Tampa Electric, Duke Energy Florida and Peace River Electric Cooperative — 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.
