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2019 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 355K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 60th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2438th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2019
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 18, 2019 11:30 | September 21, 2019 15:00 | 3d 3h | 9,121 | 8,024 |
| 2 | June 28, 2019 13:30 | June 30, 2019 12:45 | 1d 23h | 6,192 | 11K |
| 3 | May 7, 2019 07:45 | May 9, 2019 07:30 | 1d 23h | 5,391 | 6,640 |
| 4 | July 13, 2019 04:30 | July 14, 2019 18:30 | 1d 14h | 4,320 | 2,977 |
| 5 | January 27, 2019 11:30 | January 29, 2019 11:15 | 1d 23h | 4,159 | 7,081 |
| 6 | March 6, 2019 11:15 | March 7, 2019 03:45 | 16h 30m | 3,972 | 1,894 |
| 7 | March 7, 2019 14:30 | March 8, 2019 07:15 | 16h 45m | 3,876 | 1,660 |
| 8 | October 18, 2019 11:30 | October 18, 2019 21:15 | 9h 45m | 3,789 | 1,528 |
| 9 | January 9, 2019 13:30 | January 11, 2019 09:30 | 1d 20h | 3,737 | 7,549 |
| 10 | May 27, 2019 21:15 | May 28, 2019 21:30 | 1d | 3,704 | 4,432 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 174 reached 100+ customers, 73 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2019, 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 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/florida/sarasota-county