2021 in Florida

Incumbents

State government

• Governor: Ron DeSantis

Events

• Ongoing – COVID-19 pandemic in Florida
• January 22 – Florida reports 277 COVID-19 related deaths in 24 hours, tying their previous state record set in August of last year.
• January 28 – Tampa Mayor Jane Castor issues an outdoor mask mandate for the city during Super Bowl LV.
• October 16 –
• * Colombian businessman Alex Saab is Extradition law in [the United States|extradited] to the United States from Cape Verde ahead of an initial court appearance in Florida on October 18 over his alleged money laundering for the Venezuelan government.
• * Lucy, a NASA spacecraft that will visit Jupiter's trojan asteroids in twelve years, launches at 05:34 EDT from Cape Canaveral.
• February 2 – Sunrise, Florida shootout">Sunrise, Florida">Sunrise, Florida shootout: Two FBI agents are killed and three others are wounded during a shootout in Sunrise, while serving an arrest warrant. The gunman is later found dead. This is the deadliest incident involving FBI agents since 1986.
• May 9 – Murder of Tristyn Bailey
• June 24 – Surfside condominium collapse
• October 20 – Stoneman [Douglas High School shooting]: Nikolas Jacob Cruz, who is accused of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory [Stoneman Douglas High School] in Parkland, pleads guilty on all 34 charges.
• November 1 – United States federal judge Robert N. Scola Jr. of the United States District Court for the [Southern District of Florida|Southern District of Florida] dismisses seven of eight charges of money laundering against Colombian businessman Alex Saab, who is accused of moving $350 million out of Venezuela into accounts controlled in the U.S. and other countries.