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2018 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 416K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2162nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 16, 2018 11:45 | October 17, 2018 00:00 | 12h 15m | 16,088 | 16K |
| 2 | November 20, 2018 06:00 | November 20, 2018 21:45 | 15h 45m | 9,802 | 3,401 |
| 3 | August 13, 2018 10:45 | August 18, 2018 06:45 | 4d 20h | 5,148 | 12K |
| 4 | September 19, 2018 05:15 | September 25, 2018 19:30 | 6d 14h | 5,041 | 21K |
| 5 | April 10, 2018 12:30 | April 11, 2018 12:45 | 1d | 4,834 | 7,070 |
| 6 | December 20, 2018 12:15 | December 24, 2018 02:30 | 3d 14h | 4,691 | 38K |
| 7 | August 25, 2018 11:15 | August 27, 2018 06:45 | 1d 19h | 4,498 | 14K |
| 8 | July 29, 2018 18:30 | August 1, 2018 02:15 | 2d 7h | 4,336 | 3,390 |
| 9 | July 25, 2018 04:15 | July 29, 2018 04:45 | 4d | 3,786 | 6,992 |
| 10 | March 3, 2018 16:00 | March 3, 2018 23:30 | 7h 30m | 3,735 | 2,210 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 185 reached 100+ customers, 75 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.0 hrs | 2.64 | 3.3 hrs | 2.41 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/florida/sarasota-county