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2017 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 43.3 hours, a total of 27.2M customer-hours (Florida average 49.3 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 67 Florida counties and 97th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2017
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 5, 2017 11:45 | September 22, 2017 13:00 | 17d 1h | 462,570 | 26.7M |
| 2 | September 5, 2017 04:30 | September 5, 2017 08:00 | 3h 30m | 9,944 | 2,499 |
| 3 | March 28, 2017 12:45 | March 29, 2017 06:00 | 17h 15m | 9,218 | 11K |
| 4 | July 1, 2017 07:45 | July 2, 2017 14:15 | 1d 6h | 9,168 | 6,517 |
| 5 | February 16, 2017 20:30 | February 17, 2017 05:30 | 9h | 9,092 | 9,849 |
| 6 | January 22, 2017 13:00 | January 24, 2017 08:45 | 1d 19h | 7,267 | 25K |
| 7 | January 7, 2017 11:30 | January 9, 2017 08:30 | 1d 21h | 6,826 | 11K |
| 8 | March 1, 2017 13:45 | March 3, 2017 06:30 | 1d 16h | 4,911 | 4,155 |
| 9 | July 11, 2017 11:15 | July 12, 2017 03:45 | 16h 30m | 4,763 | 3,188 |
| 10 | June 28, 2017 08:15 | July 1, 2017 01:30 | 2d 17h | 4,760 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 180 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 66.0 hrs | 2.00 | 59 min | 0.69 |
| Lee County Electric Coop, Inc - (FL) | 2017 | 102.8 hrs | 8.57 | 76 min | 1.15 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/florida/lee-county