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2021 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 496K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 53rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2411th 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 Sarasota 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 | April 26, 2021 07:15 | April 27, 2021 04:30 | 21h 15m | 20,530 | 13K |
| 2 | December 20, 2021 13:00 | December 23, 2021 08:00 | 2d 19h | 9,340 | 57K |
| 3 | April 10, 2021 14:30 | April 13, 2021 02:30 | 2d 12h | 6,352 | 23K |
| 4 | September 21, 2021 12:15 | September 27, 2021 04:30 | 5d 16h | 5,647 | 8,277 |
| 5 | June 11, 2021 12:00 | June 13, 2021 10:30 | 1d 22h | 4,550 | 9,258 |
| 6 | August 16, 2021 09:45 | August 22, 2021 23:45 | 6d 14h | 4,373 | 13K |
| 7 | June 26, 2021 14:45 | July 1, 2021 05:45 | 4d 15h | 4,335 | 21K |
| 8 | March 3, 2021 11:45 | March 4, 2021 11:15 | 23h 30m | 4,244 | 3,377 |
| 9 | February 21, 2021 05:15 | February 21, 2021 10:15 | 5h | 4,039 | 2,957 |
| 10 | July 1, 2021 10:00 | July 3, 2021 04:45 | 1d 18h | 3,878 | 2,614 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 169 reached 100+ customers, 76 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 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 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2021 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 | 1.8 hrs | 1.05 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/sarasota-county