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2021 Broward County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Broward County, FL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2606th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Broward County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 8, 2021 17:00 | November 25, 2021 11:00 | 16d 18h | 29,575 | 78K |
| 2 | April 19, 2021 11:15 | July 7, 2021 07:00 | 78d 19h | 14,202 | 404K |
| 3 | March 15, 2021 09:15 | April 19, 2021 10:30 | 35d 1h | 11,059 | 121K |
| 4 | December 18, 2021 12:45 | December 20, 2021 12:15 | 1d 23h | 8,053 | 7,882 |
| 5 | July 7, 2021 11:15 | September 20, 2021 08:15 | 74d 21h | 6,622 | 405K |
| 6 | January 1, 2021 12:00 | January 2, 2021 11:15 | 23h 15m | 6,215 | 2,714 |
| 7 | September 20, 2021 10:45 | October 21, 2021 02:00 | 30d 15h | 4,938 | 131K |
| 8 | October 21, 2021 05:16 | November 7, 2021 19:45 | 17d 14h | 4,589 | 79K |
| 9 | November 26, 2021 11:45 | December 14, 2021 03:15 | 17d 15h | 4,518 | 52K |
| 10 | January 31, 2021 13:00 | February 18, 2021 08:30 | 17d 19h | 4,446 | 60K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 27 reached 100+ customers, 24 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 Broward County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 55 min | 0.58 | 45 min | 0.51 |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | 2017 | 102.8 hrs | 8.57 | 76 min | 1.15 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 1,298,256 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. Broward County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Broward County, FL annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/florida/broward-county