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2021 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 794K customer-hours (Florida average 1.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 67 Florida counties and 2563rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | July 9, 2021 09:15 | July 12, 2021 09:45 | 3d | 33,440 | 38K |
| 2 | May 28, 2021 12:00 | May 29, 2021 02:45 | 14h 45m | 21,942 | 7,688 |
| 3 | December 21, 2021 04:30 | December 23, 2021 04:30 | 2d | 19,976 | 95K |
| 4 | November 6, 2021 05:00 | November 7, 2021 02:00 | 21h | 14,632 | 8,148 |
| 5 | October 9, 2021 11:45 | October 12, 2021 11:00 | 2d 23h | 10,838 | 8,398 |
| 6 | March 14, 2021 23:15 | March 15, 2021 10:15 | 11h | 10,559 | 6,836 |
| 7 | August 2, 2021 10:15 | August 3, 2021 10:00 | 23h 45m | 9,580 | 8,419 |
| 8 | March 30, 2021 15:00 | April 2, 2021 01:15 | 2d 10h | 8,684 | 11K |
| 9 | May 25, 2021 06:30 | May 27, 2021 09:00 | 2d 2h | 7,460 | 3,660 |
| 10 | June 21, 2021 10:45 | June 27, 2021 09:45 | 5d 23h | 7,434 | 30K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 182 reached 100+ customers, 85 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2021 | 55 min | 0.58 | 45 min | 0.51 |
| 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 98% of Florida's customers in 2021; 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, 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/florida/lee-county