ORLANDO, Fla. – Hundreds of thousands of people are currently without power because of Hurricane Helene, according to the latest numbers from the Florida Public Service Commission.
News 6 caters to a designated market area of 10 Florida counties: Brevard, Flagler, Lake, Marion, Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Sumter and Volusia.
As of 6 p.m. Thursday, the PSC reported 7,242 accounts were without power in our coverage area, part of the 203,630 accounts without power statewide.
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The following outage numbers were reported at 6 p.m.:
- Brevard: 1,280
- FPL - 1,280
- Duke - 0
- Cooperatives - 0
- Flagler: 100
- FPL - 100
- Duke - 0
- Cooperatives - 0
- Lake: 796
- Duke - 471
- Cooperatives - 325
- Municipals - 0
- Marion: 297
- Duke - 17
- Cooperatives - 94
- Municipals - 186
- Orange: 382
- FPL - 0
- Duke - 342
- Municipals - 40
- Osceola: 138
- FPL - 0
- Duke - 29
- Cooperatives - 10
- Municipals - 99
- Polk: 1,889
- Duke - 377
- TECO - 585
- Cooperatives - 106
- Municipals - 821
- Seminole: 209
- FPL - 10
- Duke - 199
- Sumter: 296
- Duke - 6
- Cooperatives - 290
- Municipals - 0
- Volusia: 1,855
- FPL - 1,840
- Duke - 15
- Cooperatives - 0
- Municipals - 0
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