Hurricane Irma Power Outages: How To Report In Tampa Bay

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — With a weakened Hurricane Irma slowly making its way through the state, Florida residents can begin their efforts to recover. Tropical-storm force winds still threatened the area and authorities warned everyone to stay off the roads. If residents are out of power, they can call their utility company to report an outage.

Florida utility companies were reporting about 650,000 Tampa Bay homes and businesses were without power Monday morning. About 4 million Florida residents are out of power. To help folks figure out where to turn, here’s a listing of the region’s main electric companies, their outage contact information and links to track their outage maps online:

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.

By 6 a.m. Monday, Irma, the beast that tore through the Caribbean, leaving at least 20 people dead in its wake, was packing maximum sustained winds of 75 mph as a Category 1 storm. Irma is moving toward the northwest coast of Florida at 18 mph after wreaking havoc in south and central Florida.

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