Miami-Dade Power Outages: How Long the Lights Stay Off, by FPL Region

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By KRW Electric · Published November 11, 2026 · Updated November 11, 2026 · Data: FPL reliability reports, 2021 to 2025

In 2025, FPL customers in its South Dade region averaged 63.2 minutes without power, the highest of FPL’s 19 management regions and 49% more than the 42.5-minute average across FPL.

These are FPL’s adjusted figures, which leave out named storms, tornadoes, other extreme weather and planned outages. The figures with those events included, and what each measure means, are further down the page.

Key numbers on Miami-Dade power outages

• 63.2minaverage minutes without power per customer in FPL’s South Dade region in 2025, the highest of its 19 regionsSource: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, regional SAIDI table (adjusted)
• 42.5minthe same measure across all 6,071,776 FPL customers in 2025Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, summary and Appendix E
• 111.4minaverage length of an outage for South Dade customers who lost power in 2025, up from 72.7 minutes in 2021Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, regional CAIDI table, 2021 to 2025
• 0.57outages per South Dade customer in 2025, down from 0.80 in 2021Source: FPL 2025 Distribution Reliability Report to the Florida PSC, regional SAIFI table, 2021 to 2025
• 51.6minaverage minutes without power across the 1,234,044 customers of FPL’s four Dade regions combined, 2025Source: KRW Electric calculation from the report’s Appendix E

Outage minutes by FPL region in 2025

FPL reports reliability for 19 management regions. Four of them carry the names of Miami-Dade areas: Central Dade, North Dade, South Dade and West Dade. In 2025 South Dade led all 19 regions on two measures: total minutes without power per customer (63.2) and the average length of an outage (111.4 minutes). The other three Dade regions sat between 46.6 and 48.0 minutes, all above the FPL-wide 42.5.

Minutes without power per customer is SAIDI, outages per customer is SAIFI and minutes per outage is CAIDI, all on FPL’s adjusted basis except the last column, which is FPL’s “actual” figure. Source: FPL’s 2025 reliability report, regional tables and Appendix E. *Our calculation: the four regions’ customer minutes and interruptions added up and divided by their customers.

Fewer outages, but each one lasts longer

From 2021 to 2025, the number of outages per customer fell in all four Dade regions, while the average length of an outage rose in all four. In South Dade, customers averaged 0.80 outages in 2021 and 0.57 in 2025, but an outage lasted 72.7 minutes on average in 2021 and 111.4 minutes in 2025, 53% longer. FPL as a whole shows the same pattern since 2022, its first year as a combined system: 0.74 outages per customer fell to 0.54, and minutes per outage rose from 62.2 to 78.3.

Put simply, the lights go out less often than they did, but when they do go out, the wait is longer.

Source: FPL’s 2025 reliability report, regional tables (report pages 16 to 18). The 2021 to 2024 values for the four Dade regions are the same in FPL’s 2024 report. †FPL merged with Gulf Power on January 1, 2022; the 2021 FPL-wide figure is for the former FPL system only.

Storm days and planned work are not in these numbers

Florida’s reliability reporting rule lets utilities report “adjusted” figures that leave out outages from named storms, tornadoes, other extreme weather and planned work. Every regional figure above is FPL’s adjusted figure; we checked that the regional tables match the adjusted columns of the report’s Appendix E, and that the FPL-wide value matches the report’s own adjusted total.

FPL also publishes “actual” figures with those events included. On that basis, South Dade customers averaged 69.6 minutes without power in 2025, again the highest of the 19 regions, and FPL as a whole 48.8 minutes, of which FPL attributes about 6.2 minutes to the allowed exclusions.

Events FPL excluded in 2025 that reached the Dade regions include a weather emergency activation on March 21 and 22, Tropical Storm Chantal on July 5 and 6, and Hurricane Imelda from September 28 to 30, which FPL notes did not make landfall in Florida. The gap between the two bases can be wider in other years: for 2024, FPL reported 84.0 minutes for South Dade on the actual basis against 54.4 adjusted (FPL 2024 report, Appendix E).

What this means for Miami-Dade homeowners

• Plan for the long outage, not the average one. Spread across every customer, South Dade lost 63.2 minutes in 2025. But customers who did lose power waited 111.4 minutes per outage on average, and storm outages come on top of that. If your home depends on power for medical equipment, refrigeration, pumps or work, that is the case worth planning for. Backup power has to be connected through a transfer switch or interlock, never fed back through an outlet; our storm readiness page explains the options.
• A dark house on a lit street is usually not FPL. These figures count outages on FPL’s system. If your neighbors have power and you do not, the cause is usually on your side of the meter: the main breaker, the panel or a failed connection. Our checklist for telling an FPL outage from a problem in your house takes a few minutes, and a partial power outage is almost always inside the house.
• When the street is dark too, report it to FPL. Lines, transformers and the meter are FPL’s to repair. Check that the main breaker has not tripped, then report the outage to FPL.
• Protect what is plugged in. Unplug sensitive electronics during an outage so they are not hit by a surge when power returns. Whole-home surge protection at the panel adds another layer.
• These are averages for large areas. Each FPL region serves hundreds of thousands of customers, so one street can see far more or far fewer outages than its region’s average.

Method, sources and limits

What the measures mean

• Minutes without power per customer (SAIDI): all the minutes customers spent without power during the year, divided by every customer served, including those who had no outage.
• Outages per customer (SAIFI): sustained interruptions divided by customers served.
• Minutes per outage (CAIDI): the average length of an interruption for the customers who had one.
• Customers are FPL customer accounts, not people.

How we built it

All regional figures are from FPL’s 2025 reliability report to the Florida Public Service Commission, filed February 27, 2026: the five-year tables of reliability by management region (report pages 16 to 18) and Appendix E, which lists customers served, customer minutes interrupted and customer interruptions for each region on both the adjusted and actual basis. We recomputed each index for the four Dade regions and for FPL as a whole from those counts, and they match FPL’s published figures. The 2021 to 2024 values match FPL’s 2024 report. The combined figure for the four Dade regions is our calculation. The script, the source checksums and the extracted tables are kept with the data.

Limits

• Regions are not cities. The region names are FPL’s management areas. The report does not say which cities or neighborhoods each region covers, so we have not assigned any city or neighborhood to a region.
• Not all of Miami-Dade is served by FPL. The federal EIA-861 data lists two electric utilities in Miami-Dade County for 2025: FPL and the City of Homestead’s municipal utility, whose customers are not in these figures.
• Adjusted figures leave out storms and planned work, as explained above. Outages caused by power plant and transmission events are left out of both bases under the rule.
• Federal figures use a different method. FPL also reports to the U.S. Energy Information Administration under the IEEE 1366 standard: for 2025, 46.9 minutes per customer including major event days and 44.6 without (EIA-861, 2025 final data). Those totals are not broken down by region and use different exclusions, so we do not mix them with the state report.
• One year at a time. FPL files each year’s report early the following year. We will update this page when the 2026 report is filed.

Sources

• Florida Power & Light Company, 2025 Annual Reliability Report (calendar 2025, with regional tables for 2021 to 2025), filed with the Florida PSC: floridapsc.com, FPL 2025 report (PDF)
• Florida Power & Light Company, 2024 Annual Reliability Report (calendar 2024): floridapsc.com, FPL 2024 report (PDF)
• U.S. Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-861 annual electric power industry data, 2025 final (reliability and service territory files): eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861
• Florida Administrative Code, Rule 25-6.0455, Annual Distribution Service Reliability Report: flrules.org

Cite this study

Power out and the street is lit? KRW Electric (EC13012832) troubleshoots power loss and partial outages in Pinecrest, Coconut Grove, South Miami and Miami Beach. Call (305) 359-7312 or send us a message.

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