Baker, Bradford, Broward, Clay, Columbia, Hendry, Miami-Dade, Nassau, Palm Beach and Suwannee counties are already "essentially restored," FPL says. FPL aims to have 95% of customers in Glades, Martin, Putnam and St. Johns counties restored by Tuesday.

Florida Power & Light Co. is in the midst of the massive task of restoring power to more than 1.8 million customers who lost their electricity because of Hurricane Milton. Nearly two-thirds of them had their power back by Friday morning.

Thousands of Florida Power & Light Co. customers may not get their power back until Tuesday, the utility said. Although St. Lucie and Martin counties were “essentially restored" on Sunday, Indian River County isn't expected to reach the 95% power threshold until the end of the day Monday, according to FPL.

But it appears that timeline has been accelerated. About 99% of the 178,010 Brevard FPL customer accounts that lost power as a result of Hurricane Milton had their power back on by Monday morning. That leaves 1,750 FPL customers in Brevard still without power — and 93,973 statewide.

Utility workers from other companies who otherwise would help FPL in storm recovery efforts in Florida are working in other states affected by Helene.

Nearly 2.5 million people are without power after Hurricane Milton swept through Florida on Wednesday and Thursday. The storm made landfall in the state on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, the storm left Florida through its east coast and headed toward the Sargasso Sea in the Atlantic Ocean.

Power is slowly returning to Manatee and Sarasota counties in southwest Florida, but the electrical grid won’t get to 95 percent restoration until the end of next week, FPL said.