Hurricane Irma: Latest Central Florida County-By-County Power Outages

TAMPA, FL — Floridians are slowly beginning to turn the lights — and air conditioning — back on in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, with utilities reporting that about 22 percent of homes and businesses across the state remain without electricity.

About 2.3 million accounts in the state were experiencing a power outage as of about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, according to the latest figures from floridadisaster.org. That's down from about 2.6 million accounts that had no power Thursday morning.

Below is a county by county roundup of power outages in central Florida.

Hillsborough County: 12 percent remain without power.

• Five of Duke Energy's 25 customers (25 percent) were without power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 32 percent.
• For TECO Energy, 78,562 of its 631,780 customers (12 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, up from 1o percent Thursday morning.
• Just 3 percent of cooperative customers (30 accounts) were without power as of Thursday morning, up from 2 percent Thursday morning.

Polk County: 21 percent remain without power.

• Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative said 536 of its 569 customers had no power as of Thursday afternoon (94 percent), no change from Thursday morning.
• Lakeland Electric said 11,837 customers (9 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 26 percent Wednesday night.
• Duke Energy said 17,952 of its 100,519 customers (18 percent) were experiencing a power outage as of Thursday morning, down from 28 percent.
• TECO Energy reported that 16,697 of its customers (20 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 21 percent.

Pinellas County: 21 percent remain without power.

• Duke Energy said 115,787 of its 540,933 customers (21 percent )had no power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 34 percent.
• TECO reported that 847 of its 10,984 customers (8 percent) were without power as of Thursday afternoon, up from 7 percent.

Pasco County: 15 percent remain without power.

• Duke Energy said 27,792 of its 139,992 customers (20 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 32 percent.
• Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative reported that 8,310 of its 106,230 customers (8 percent) were without power as of Thursday morning, down from 10 percent.
• TECO reported that 4,271 of its 23,836 customers (18) were without power as of Thursday afternoon, up from 17 percent.

Hernando County: 7 percent remain without power.

• Duke Energy said 2,247 of its 11,341 (20 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, down from 31 percent.
• Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative said 6,364 of its 83,415 customers (8 percent) were without power as of Thursday afternoon, up from 6 percent.

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Manatee County: 20 percent remain without power.

• Florida Power & Light said 42,140 of its 184,900 customers (23 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, slightly higher than Thursday morning.

Sarasota County: 25 percent remain without power.

• Florida Power & Light said 65,470 of its 263,800 customers (25 percent) had no power as of Thursday afternoon, slightly higher than Thursday morning.

TECO said it estimates essentially all of its customers will have service by Monday, but said some customers might take longer to restore.

Florida Power & Light estimated that it will restore power to essentially all of its customers along Florida's east coast by Monday. FPL said it expects to restore power by Sept. 22 for its west coast customers.

Florida Power & Light

• To report an outage by phone call 1-800-468-8243
• To report an outage online, visit FPL’s website
• To check on the status of an outage via FPL’s outage map, visit the company online.

TECO

• To report an outage by phone, call 1-877-588-1010
• To report an outage online, visit TECO’s website.
• To send an outage report via text, text OUT to 35069
• To check on the status of an outage via TECO’s outage map, visit the company’s website.

Duke Energy

• To report an outage by phone, call 1-800-228-8485
• To report an outage online, visit the company’s website.
• To check on the status of an outage via Duke Energy’s outage map, visit the company’s website.

Withlacoochee River Electric Cooperative

• To report an outage online, visit the company’s website.
• To check on the status of an outage via Withlacoochee’s outage map, visit the company online.

Lakeland Electric

• To report an outage by phone, call 863-834-9535
• To check on the status of outages, visit the company’s online map.

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