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2019 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1448th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 3, 2019 18:30 | March 5, 2019 04:00 | 1d 9h | 11,354 | 82K |
| 2 | June 7, 2019 16:45 | June 9, 2019 01:45 | 1d 9h | 6,942 | 25K |
| 3 | July 18, 2019 19:30 | July 19, 2019 03:15 | 7h 45m | 5,195 | 4,092 |
| 4 | February 12, 2019 16:30 | February 13, 2019 07:00 | 14h 30m | 4,812 | 11K |
| 5 | May 27, 2019 11:45 | May 27, 2019 15:45 | 4h | 2,079 | 3,791 |
| 6 | January 14, 2019 19:15 | January 14, 2019 20:15 | 1h | 1,602 | 404 |
| 7 | August 8, 2019 07:00 | August 8, 2019 08:15 | 1h 15m | 1,595 | 1,994 |
| 8 | September 7, 2019 17:45 | September 7, 2019 21:00 | 3h 15m | 1,413 | 2,177 |
| 9 | September 1, 2019 17:30 | September 1, 2019 23:45 | 6h 15m | 1,382 | 1,403 |
| 10 | August 8, 2019 14:00 | August 8, 2019 22:45 | 8h 45m | 1,153 | 1,041 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 122 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/lee-county