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2020 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 749K customer-hours (Florida average 3.6 hours). That ranks 63rd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2592nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | September 19, 2020 16:45 | September 22, 2020 10:15 | 2d 17h | 17,626 | 44K |
| 2 | August 28, 2020 11:30 | September 1, 2020 10:45 | 3d 23h | 16,896 | 28K |
| 3 | November 11, 2020 10:00 | November 15, 2020 11:45 | 4d 1h | 13,891 | 60K |
| 4 | March 10, 2020 11:45 | March 12, 2020 09:00 | 1d 21h | 8,658 | 4,028 |
| 5 | April 26, 2020 12:00 | April 27, 2020 07:15 | 19h 15m | 8,136 | 10K |
| 6 | March 2, 2020 13:00 | March 7, 2020 03:00 | 4d 14h | 7,712 | 5,184 |
| 7 | February 13, 2020 13:30 | February 15, 2020 03:00 | 1d 13h | 7,705 | 4,519 |
| 8 | May 22, 2020 12:15 | May 24, 2020 09:30 | 1d 21h | 6,786 | 8,499 |
| 9 | August 26, 2020 05:00 | August 28, 2020 07:15 | 2d 2h | 6,291 | 15K |
| 10 | August 25, 2020 05:45 | August 26, 2020 02:45 | 21h | 5,775 | 3,011 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 189 reached 100+ customers, 80 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2020 | 70 min | 0.75 | 49 min | 0.59 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/florida/lee-county