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2020 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 473K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 59th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2459th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 22, 2020 12:30 | February 23, 2020 01:15 | 12h 45m | 14,642 | 4,723 |
| 2 | April 8, 2020 12:00 | April 9, 2020 03:45 | 15h 45m | 9,763 | 4,559 |
| 3 | August 15, 2020 11:45 | August 18, 2020 04:45 | 2d 17h | 7,006 | 4,805 |
| 4 | November 11, 2020 11:30 | November 15, 2020 10:15 | 3d 22h | 6,684 | 75K |
| 5 | May 13, 2020 09:00 | May 16, 2020 07:30 | 2d 22h | 4,774 | 8,511 |
| 6 | December 24, 2020 14:00 | December 26, 2020 06:15 | 1d 16h | 4,769 | 4,937 |
| 7 | January 29, 2020 12:15 | January 30, 2020 07:45 | 19h 30m | 4,245 | 4,705 |
| 8 | February 26, 2020 12:45 | February 27, 2020 03:30 | 14h 45m | 3,955 | 2,205 |
| 9 | January 24, 2020 11:30 | January 25, 2020 03:15 | 15h 45m | 3,942 | 2,318 |
| 10 | June 14, 2020 06:15 | June 15, 2020 05:15 | 23h | 3,873 | 3,587 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 170 reached 100+ customers, 89 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 70 min | 0.75 | 49 min | 0.59 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2020 | 2.7 hrs | 1.72 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/florida/sarasota-county