When will the power be back in Lake Wales, FL?
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Lake Wales is a city of about 17,798 residents in Polk County.
Duke Energy Florida has reported outages for Lake Wales by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-08-17) — so when Lake Wales is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
ZIP codes in Lake Wales:
Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.
Around Lake Wales: the closest other places we track are Winter Haven, about 9 miles to the northwest; Haines City, about 13 miles to the north; Bartow, about 14 miles to the west; and Davenport, about 17 miles to the north. Also nearby: Auburndale (17 mi NW), Avon Park (23 mi S), Lakeland (24 mi NW), Kissimmee (29 mi NE), St. Cloud (29 mi NE), Sebring (32 mi S), Plant City (33 mi W) and Orlando (42 mi NE).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Clermont (43 mi); northeast toward Oviedo (57 mi); east toward Palm Bay (57 mi); southwest toward Palmetto (66 mi); west toward Temple Terrace (48 mi); and northwest toward Zephyrhills (42 mi).
Who serves Lake Wales?
We track live outage data from Tampa Electric, Duke Energy Florida, Lakeland Electric ↗ and Withlacoochee River EC in Polk County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. City of Bartow, Peace River Electric Cooperative and City of Fort Meade also serve parts of Polk County — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Lake Wales's last tracked outage began Oct 2, peaked at 149 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 6 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran an hour.
- Oct 2 — 149 customers out, restored in 2 hours
- Sep 20 — 57 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 18 — 1,117 customers out, restored in an hour
- Sep 9 — 30 customers out, restored in 55 minutes
County context: across all of Polk County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 4 hr. The full record for Polk County
Common questions
How do I check the power outage status in Lake Wales, FL?
To check your own street, search a Lake Wales ZIP code — 33853, 33859 or 33898 — and the map opens on that area.
Does this page show Lake Wales specifically, or the whole county?
Both, and for Lake Wales we have the city-level view: Duke Energy Florida has published outages for Lake Wales under its own name, most recently seen on 2026-08-17. When Lake Wales is affected, you get its own customers-out count and restoration time, with the Polk County county-wide total shown separately as context. Don't add the two together — the county figure already includes Lake Wales.
