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2018 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 265K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1218th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 28, 2018 18:45 | June 30, 2018 04:30 | 1d 9h | 10,032 | 28K |
| 2 | May 29, 2018 01:30 | May 29, 2018 23:30 | 22h | 8,900 | 22K |
| 3 | October 10, 2018 17:45 | October 12, 2018 04:45 | 1d 11h | 6,520 | 94K |
| 4 | August 29, 2018 23:45 | August 30, 2018 08:30 | 8h 45m | 2,625 | 8,166 |
| 5 | May 28, 2018 19:45 | May 29, 2018 00:45 | 5h | 1,666 | 2,639 |
| 6 | January 2, 2018 00:00 | January 3, 2018 02:15 | 1d 2h | 1,653 | 3,667 |
| 7 | March 30, 2018 18:15 | March 30, 2018 18:30 | 15m | 1,638 | 410 |
| 8 | November 22, 2018 11:45 | November 22, 2018 16:45 | 5h | 1,627 | 2,459 |
| 9 | July 20, 2018 12:15 | July 21, 2018 00:00 | 11h 45m | 1,622 | 2,251 |
| 10 | May 31, 2018 16:15 | May 31, 2018 22:15 | 6h | 1,617 | 605 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 114 reached 100+ customers, 23 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 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie Electric Coop - (AL) | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.60 | 2.6 hrs | 1.48 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 | 6.4 hrs | 2.39 |
| City of Opelika - (AL) | 2018 | 6.7 hrs | 1.80 | 6.7 hrs | 1.80 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 63,579 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 2017–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Lee County, AL annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/lee-county