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2016 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 630K customer-hours (Florida average 7.1 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 1779th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 15, 2016 11:15 | January 17, 2016 05:15 | 1d 18h | 31,690 | 86K |
| 2 | March 16, 2016 12:30 | March 18, 2016 00:45 | 1d 12h | 20,147 | 8,485 |
| 3 | January 17, 2016 06:00 | January 20, 2016 02:45 | 2d 20h | 16,119 | 59K |
| 4 | April 11, 2016 02:00 | April 11, 2016 03:45 | 1h 45m | 8,683 | 5,324 |
| 5 | January 4, 2016 23:45 | January 5, 2016 08:15 | 8h 30m | 8,601 | 6,500 |
| 6 | November 3, 2016 07:30 | November 3, 2016 09:00 | 1h 30m | 7,488 | 1,888 |
| 7 | December 6, 2016 13:00 | December 8, 2016 01:30 | 1d 12h | 7,380 | 6,452 |
| 8 | July 16, 2016 10:30 | July 17, 2016 12:15 | 1d 1h | 6,430 | 7,664 |
| 9 | July 11, 2016 11:00 | July 12, 2016 10:00 | 23h | 6,003 | 10K |
| 10 | September 14, 2016 11:45 | September 16, 2016 04:30 | 1d 16h | 5,282 | 2,556 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 219 reached 100+ customers, 80 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Lee County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 | 2016 | 6.9 hrs | 1.09 | 62 min | 0.74 |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | 2016 | 1.8 hrs | 1.33 | 80 min | 1.17 |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 628,635 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. Lee County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee County, FL annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/florida/lee-county