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2021 Lee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Lee County, GA went without power for an average of 2.0 hours, a total of 33K customer-hours (Georgia average 2.4 hours). That ranks 102nd worst of 159 Georgia counties and 2222nd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia 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 | February 1, 2021 17:45 | February 1, 2021 18:45 | 1h | 2,709 | 979 |
| 2 | April 24, 2021 14:00 | April 25, 2021 16:00 | 1d 2h | 2,663 | 2,107 |
| 3 | February 1, 2021 23:15 | February 2, 2021 02:00 | 2h 45m | 1,550 | 398 |
| 4 | August 10, 2021 19:30 | August 10, 2021 22:00 | 2h 30m | 1,470 | 1,773 |
| 5 | June 19, 2021 22:45 | June 20, 2021 07:00 | 8h 15m | 1,463 | 2,907 |
| 6 | May 4, 2021 21:45 | May 5, 2021 21:30 | 23h 45m | 1,457 | 7,358 |
| 7 | July 30, 2021 13:00 | July 30, 2021 20:00 | 7h | 918 | 259 |
| 8 | February 2, 2021 05:30 | February 2, 2021 08:30 | 3h | 790 | 1,245 |
| 9 | August 27, 2021 20:15 | August 28, 2021 06:15 | 10h | 580 | 1,420 |
| 10 | March 18, 2021 13:30 | March 18, 2021 16:45 | 3h 15m | 569 | 355 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 30 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 2021 | 2.4 hrs | 1.28 | 2.4 hrs | 1.25 |
| Sumter Electric Member Corp | 2021 | 3.0 hrs | - | 3.0 hrs | - |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
| Albany Utility Board | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 90% of Georgia's customers in 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 16,591 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, GA 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/georgia/lee-county