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2019 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 374K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 66th worst of 67 Florida counties and 2647th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | January 22, 2019 13:00 | January 22, 2019 22:15 | 9h 15m | 9,571 | 4,957 |
| 2 | May 9, 2019 11:15 | May 11, 2019 18:00 | 2d 6h | 7,831 | 7,469 |
| 3 | January 13, 2019 14:30 | January 15, 2019 02:45 | 1d 12h | 7,073 | 8,292 |
| 4 | April 14, 2019 06:00 | April 14, 2019 18:15 | 12h 15m | 5,934 | 3,878 |
| 5 | June 26, 2019 02:00 | June 28, 2019 10:15 | 2d 8h | 5,765 | 12K |
| 6 | October 2, 2019 01:15 | October 5, 2019 07:30 | 3d 6h | 4,895 | 7,863 |
| 7 | January 24, 2019 12:30 | January 24, 2019 21:30 | 9h | 4,677 | 4,306 |
| 8 | May 7, 2019 04:15 | May 9, 2019 08:00 | 2d 3h | 4,554 | 3,359 |
| 9 | August 20, 2019 06:00 | August 23, 2019 09:00 | 3d 3h | 4,528 | 3,879 |
| 10 | October 19, 2019 07:15 | October 23, 2019 09:15 | 4d 2h | 4,439 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 169 reached 100+ customers, 66 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2019; 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, 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/florida/lee-county