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2015 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 432K customer-hours (Florida average 1.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1540th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 3, 2015 09:15 | November 4, 2015 11:15 | 1d 2h | 15,300 | 11K |
| 2 | May 16, 2015 21:15 | May 18, 2015 02:15 | 1d 5h | 8,060 | 5,970 |
| 3 | March 30, 2015 12:30 | March 31, 2015 03:00 | 14h 30m | 7,271 | 7,747 |
| 4 | November 4, 2015 13:00 | November 5, 2015 06:45 | 17h 45m | 6,776 | 2,152 |
| 5 | September 8, 2015 23:15 | September 9, 2015 05:15 | 6h | 5,780 | 1,472 |
| 6 | April 30, 2015 11:30 | May 1, 2015 07:45 | 20h 15m | 4,790 | 4,293 |
| 7 | July 11, 2015 20:30 | July 13, 2015 08:00 | 1d 11h | 4,761 | 8,210 |
| 8 | July 24, 2015 12:00 | July 26, 2015 07:45 | 1d 19h | 4,736 | 7,484 |
| 9 | September 3, 2015 10:45 | September 4, 2015 06:30 | 19h 45m | 4,446 | 4,270 |
| 10 | December 3, 2015 12:15 | December 5, 2015 02:00 | 1d 13h | 4,412 | 4,782 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 214 reached 100+ customers, 79 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Sarasota County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2015 | 65 min | 0.82 | 62 min | 0.79 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2015 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 | 2.6 hrs | 1.75 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 310,646 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Sarasota County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sarasota County, FL annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/florida/sarasota-county