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2017 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 48.4 hours, a total of 15.0M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 67 Florida counties and 78th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 7, 2017 12:30 | September 22, 2017 12:00 | 14d 23h | 340,240 | 14.6M |
| 2 | March 4, 2017 07:15 | March 5, 2017 05:30 | 22h 15m | 32,959 | 14K |
| 3 | April 4, 2017 12:00 | April 7, 2017 10:30 | 2d 22h | 5,702 | 4,683 |
| 4 | August 24, 2017 07:00 | August 24, 2017 17:00 | 10h | 4,670 | 3,975 |
| 5 | March 13, 2017 11:45 | March 15, 2017 07:30 | 1d 19h | 4,316 | 14K |
| 6 | January 4, 2017 11:45 | January 5, 2017 02:15 | 14h 30m | 4,254 | 5,137 |
| 7 | July 3, 2017 12:00 | July 4, 2017 02:00 | 14h | 4,230 | 2,593 |
| 8 | August 9, 2017 06:00 | August 13, 2017 00:45 | 3d 18h | 4,158 | 13K |
| 9 | September 29, 2017 06:15 | October 1, 2017 03:15 | 1d 21h | 4,101 | 4,116 |
| 10 | October 15, 2017 09:00 | October 18, 2017 11:00 | 3d 2h | 4,091 | 5,153 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 182 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 66.0 hrs | 2.00 | 59 min | 0.69 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2017 | 56.6 hrs | 3.27 | 2.3 hrs | 1.47 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/florida/sarasota-county