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2018 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 0.8 hours, a total of 497K customer-hours (Florida average 5.5 hours). That ranks 67th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2392nd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | July 19, 2018 12:45 | July 21, 2018 07:00 | 1d 18h | 50,000 | 17K |
| 2 | July 29, 2018 10:45 | July 30, 2018 03:15 | 16h 30m | 11,145 | 9,580 |
| 3 | October 17, 2018 18:30 | October 18, 2018 03:45 | 9h 15m | 10,312 | 4,002 |
| 4 | August 18, 2018 18:15 | August 19, 2018 06:00 | 11h 45m | 7,831 | 11K |
| 5 | December 20, 2018 02:30 | December 23, 2018 01:45 | 2d 23h | 7,558 | 32K |
| 6 | March 20, 2018 12:00 | March 21, 2018 06:45 | 18h 45m | 6,876 | 6,335 |
| 7 | August 24, 2018 10:15 | August 27, 2018 00:00 | 2d 13h | 6,631 | 23K |
| 8 | July 4, 2018 13:15 | July 6, 2018 10:00 | 1d 20h | 6,133 | 11K |
| 9 | March 29, 2018 07:30 | March 29, 2018 21:15 | 13h 45m | 5,464 | 2,202 |
| 10 | September 17, 2018 12:00 | September 19, 2018 10:00 | 1d 22h | 5,353 | 7,984 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 198 reached 100+ customers, 82 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2018 | 60 min | 0.71 | 55 min | 0.65 |
| 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 97% of Florida's customers in 2018; 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, 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/florida/lee-county