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2023 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 512K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 58th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2429th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 29, 2023 11:15 | September 3, 2023 23:45 | 5d 12h | 14,632 | 151K |
| 2 | April 2, 2023 17:15 | April 3, 2023 05:30 | 12h 15m | 6,073 | 3,719 |
| 3 | May 30, 2023 10:30 | June 3, 2023 23:30 | 4d 13h | 6,033 | 8,800 |
| 4 | February 26, 2023 08:30 | February 27, 2023 00:00 | 15h 30m | 5,927 | 5,456 |
| 5 | July 21, 2023 13:00 | July 25, 2023 04:30 | 3d 15h | 5,891 | 8,120 |
| 6 | May 18, 2023 03:45 | May 18, 2023 22:30 | 18h 45m | 5,813 | 1,793 |
| 7 | April 29, 2023 13:15 | May 1, 2023 09:00 | 1d 19h | 5,363 | 25K |
| 8 | June 28, 2023 10:45 | June 30, 2023 06:45 | 1d 20h | 4,622 | 9,489 |
| 9 | June 20, 2023 09:15 | June 21, 2023 05:45 | 20h 30m | 4,608 | 2,081 |
| 10 | January 16, 2023 12:15 | January 17, 2023 10:00 | 21h 45m | 4,496 | 2,397 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 147 reached 100+ customers, 62 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 min | 0.51 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2023 | 2.4 hrs | 1.57 | 2.2 hrs | 1.56 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/florida/sarasota-county