When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Sarasota County, FL?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Florida
11
customers reported out in Sarasota County, FL
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~11 hr start to finish (16 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 5:24 AM EDT.
77 out, then 1111 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 15 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Siesta Key — 7 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 6:45 AM EDT
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.

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Who serves Sarasota County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Florida Power & Light, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Peace River Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Sarasota County, FL
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 205 customers, restored in ~8.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 32 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 11.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Sarasota County, FL
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,867 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 17 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Florida norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~340,240 customers out in September 2017, restored after about 9.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2015.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Sarasota County

Communities in Sarasota County include North Port, Venice, Bee Ridge, Desoto Acres, Desoto Lakes, Englewood, Fruitville and Gulf Gate. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

Sarasota County, FL — live power outage tracker