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2020 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 4.7 hours, a total of 302K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 55th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1444th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 17, 2020 19:30 | May 18, 2020 01:30 | 6h | 12,159 | 19K |
| 2 | May 18, 2020 02:30 | May 18, 2020 22:00 | 19h 30m | 11,474 | 3,471 |
| 3 | April 13, 2020 00:15 | April 15, 2020 00:45 | 2d | 7,839 | 86K |
| 4 | October 29, 2020 01:00 | November 1, 2020 00:30 | 2d 23h | 5,512 | 49K |
| 5 | September 16, 2020 17:15 | September 18, 2020 01:00 | 1d 7h | 3,065 | 33K |
| 6 | June 27, 2020 22:15 | June 28, 2020 04:00 | 5h 45m | 2,492 | 3,430 |
| 7 | April 17, 2020 05:00 | April 17, 2020 10:00 | 5h | 2,375 | 1,924 |
| 8 | April 15, 2020 01:30 | April 15, 2020 04:00 | 2h 30m | 1,957 | 3,683 |
| 9 | June 22, 2020 20:15 | June 23, 2020 02:15 | 6h | 1,954 | 614 |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 21:45 | August 26, 2020 00:30 | 2h 45m | 1,822 | 474 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 125 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.4 hrs | 2.55 | 2.5 hrs | 2.12 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2020 | 15.0 hrs | 2.90 | 5.4 hrs | 2.30 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/lee-county