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2016 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 772K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 48th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1158th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 17, 2016 05:15 | January 21, 2016 05:00 | 3d 23h | 24,607 | 155K |
| 2 | August 30, 2016 12:00 | September 8, 2016 08:00 | 8d 20h | 12,036 | 90K |
| 3 | June 3, 2016 12:30 | June 8, 2016 05:15 | 4d 16h | 10,249 | 64K |
| 4 | August 6, 2016 11:30 | August 7, 2016 14:15 | 1d 2h | 8,688 | 5,002 |
| 5 | February 18, 2016 13:15 | February 19, 2016 05:15 | 16h | 7,454 | 7,183 |
| 6 | February 16, 2016 06:30 | February 17, 2016 11:30 | 1d 5h | 6,385 | 10K |
| 7 | October 6, 2016 12:30 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 2d 5h | 5,643 | 17K |
| 8 | April 1, 2016 11:45 | April 2, 2016 03:30 | 15h 45m | 5,341 | 1,943 |
| 9 | January 16, 2016 14:15 | January 17, 2016 04:15 | 14h | 4,679 | 4,178 |
| 10 | September 25, 2016 18:30 | September 29, 2016 04:30 | 3d 10h | 4,363 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 195 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 6.9 hrs | 1.09 | 62 min | 0.74 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2016 | 3.1 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/florida/sarasota-county