FLORIDA — Thousands of homes and businesses across Florida are without electricity Monday morning as utility crews worked to restore service following scattered outages across the state.
According to outage tracking site PowerOutage.us, 6,922 customers are reported without power across Florida out of more than 10.9 million customers tracked statewide, representing about 0.06% of customers.
Among Florida’s 67 counties, Duval County reported the highest number of outages with 2,987 customers without electricity. Other counties experiencing notable outages included Franklin County with 710 outages, Miami-Dade County with 383, Bay County with 298, and Wakulla County with 256 customers without power.
By utility provider, JEA reported the largest number of outages, with 2,988 customers affected among more than 543,000 customers served. Other utilities reporting outages included Florida Power & Light Company with 1,645 customers without power, Duke Energy with 1,173 outages, and Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative with 301.
Statewide, Florida currently ranks 17th in the United States for the total number of power outages and 28th for the percentage of customers affected, according to the outage monitoring site.
Utility companies across Florida continue working to restore power to affected customers. The cause of the outages had not been immediately identified Monday morning.
