Power Outages in Sarasota County, FL
No live outage feed is available for Sarasota County, FL yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.4 hours.
Sarasota County, FL is served by local tracked utilities.
Sarasota County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Sarasota County right now.
Sarasota County has been under 5 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 18, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×3
- Heat Advisory ×1
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Sarasota County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- North Portno active outage
- Sarasotano active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Sarasota County went about 1.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 340,240 customers.
Worst year here was 2022 (peak 257,410 customers out) · decade average 16.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 574 | 15,300 | 1.4 |
| 2016 | 508 | 24,607 | 2.5 |
| 2017 | 438 | 340,240 | 48.4 |
| 2018 | 496 | 16,088 | 1.3 |
| 2019 | 462 | 9,121 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 384 | 14,642 | 1.5 |
| 2021 | 356 | 20,530 | 1.6 |
| 2022 | 245 | 257,410 | 70.7 |
| 2023 | 378 | 14,632 | 1.6 |
| 2024 | 260 | 255,131 | 53.2 |
| 2025 | 259 | 4,975 | 1.4 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 16.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Sarasota County: FAQ
- How often does Sarasota County, FL lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Sarasota County, FL logged 259 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Sarasota County, FL?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 340,240 customers without power, beginning September 7, 2017 and lasting about 14d 23h.
- Is there a power outage in Sarasota County, FL right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Sarasota County, FL. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
North Port, Sarasota. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Sarasota County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Sarasota County.
34223, 34228, 34229, 34231, 34232, 34233, 34234, 34235, 34236, 34237, 34238, 34239, 34240, 34241, 34242, 34275, 34285, 34286, 34287, 34288, 34289, 34291, 34292, 34293
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/12115 and /api/v1/counties/12115/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Florida customers).