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2021 Miami-Dade County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Miami-Dade County, FL went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 27th worst of 67 Florida counties and 1991st 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 Miami-Dade 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 | March 12, 2021 12:15 | October 21, 2021 02:00 | 222d 13h | 21,046 | 1.8M |
| 2 | October 21, 2021 05:16 | November 7, 2021 19:45 | 17d 14h | 7,483 | 150K |
| 3 | November 26, 2021 10:45 | December 29, 2021 03:30 | 32d 16h | 6,099 | 156K |
| 4 | February 5, 2021 11:45 | March 12, 2021 10:15 | 34d 22h | 6,013 | 151K |
| 5 | November 8, 2021 17:00 | November 26, 2021 09:30 | 17d 16h | 5,447 | 82K |
| 6 | January 13, 2021 07:45 | February 1, 2021 10:45 | 19d 3h | 4,186 | 53K |
| 7 | February 1, 2021 12:15 | February 5, 2021 08:30 | 3d 20h | 4,014 | 26K |
| 8 | January 1, 2021 00:00 | January 13, 2021 06:30 | 12d 6h | 2,373 | 37K |
| 9 | December 29, 2021 04:15 | December 31, 2021 00:15 | 1d 20h | 699 | 3,962 |
| 10 | October 21, 2021 03:15 | October 21, 2021 04:15 | 1h | 34 | 17 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 9 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 Miami-Dade 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 |
| City of Homestead - (FL) | 2021 | 35 min | 0.35 | 35 min | 0.35 |
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 ÷ 951,391 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. Miami-Dade County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Miami-Dade 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/miami-dade-county