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2021 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 216K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1708th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2021
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 7, 2021 03:45 | May 7, 2021 08:30 | 4h 45m | 14,390 | 11K |
| 2 | May 4, 2021 22:30 | May 7, 2021 01:00 | 2d 2h | 6,668 | 66K |
| 3 | August 25, 2021 03:00 | August 25, 2021 03:45 | 45m | 4,680 | 3,502 |
| 4 | September 8, 2021 18:30 | September 8, 2021 22:45 | 4h 15m | 3,712 | 4,887 |
| 5 | January 14, 2021 14:45 | January 14, 2021 17:30 | 2h 45m | 3,677 | 4,417 |
| 6 | June 5, 2021 21:15 | June 6, 2021 03:45 | 6h 30m | 2,702 | 810 |
| 7 | July 8, 2021 19:00 | July 8, 2021 22:15 | 3h 15m | 2,371 | 1,195 |
| 8 | July 31, 2021 17:30 | August 1, 2021 06:45 | 13h 15m | 2,296 | 6,023 |
| 9 | April 13, 2021 14:45 | April 13, 2021 22:00 | 7h 15m | 2,280 | 1,104 |
| 10 | July 8, 2021 12:45 | July 8, 2021 17:00 | 4h 15m | 2,175 | 586 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 126 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 5.2 hrs | 1.75 | 2.0 hrs | 1.32 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 2.12 | 3.8 hrs | 1.79 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/lee-county