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2024 Sarasota County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Sarasota County, FL went without power for an average of 53.2 hours, a total of 16.5M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 67 Florida counties and 189th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Sarasota County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 23, 2024 10:15 | October 17, 2024 03:00 | 23d 16h | 255,131 | 15.7M |
| 2 | November 26, 2024 10:45 | November 28, 2024 17:45 | 2d 7h | 25,907 | 12K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 13:00 | January 13, 2024 14:45 | 4d 1h | 11,951 | 11K |
| 4 | July 30, 2024 11:15 | August 12, 2024 01:30 | 12d 14h | 11,717 | 300K |
| 5 | December 8, 2024 22:00 | December 16, 2024 01:30 | 7d 3h | 8,418 | 18K |
| 6 | August 19, 2024 13:15 | August 25, 2024 21:00 | 6d 7h | 7,385 | 34K |
| 7 | February 28, 2024 07:15 | March 1, 2024 04:30 | 1d 21h | 7,295 | 28K |
| 8 | August 25, 2024 21:45 | September 13, 2024 11:30 | 18d 13h | 6,701 | 46K |
| 9 | November 18, 2024 11:45 | November 25, 2024 04:45 | 6d 17h | 6,240 | 21K |
| 10 | June 14, 2024 11:15 | June 21, 2024 07:00 | 6d 19h | 5,328 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 118 reached 100+ customers, 46 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 11.7 hrs | 1.04 | 46 min | 0.44 |
| Peace River Electric Coop, Inc | 2024 | 24.3 hrs | 5.83 | 1.5 hrs | 1.13 |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/florida/sarasota-county