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2022 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 1.9 hours, a total of 122K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2329th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2022
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, 2022 20:30 | May 17, 2022 21:00 | 30m | 3,304 | 827 |
| 2 | August 27, 2022 18:30 | August 28, 2022 03:00 | 8h 30m | 2,800 | 1,513 |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 23:45 | October 1, 2022 03:30 | 3h 45m | 1,755 | 1,879 |
| 4 | January 16, 2022 07:30 | January 17, 2022 14:00 | 1d 6h | 1,750 | 1,974 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 05:45 | December 24, 2022 22:45 | 1d 17h | 1,481 | 11K |
| 6 | March 24, 2022 14:00 | March 24, 2022 17:15 | 3h 15m | 1,352 | 844 |
| 7 | February 3, 2022 23:45 | February 4, 2022 11:15 | 11h 30m | 1,300 | 1,035 |
| 8 | May 20, 2022 02:15 | May 20, 2022 07:30 | 5h 15m | 1,243 | 391 |
| 9 | March 29, 2022 14:15 | March 29, 2022 22:15 | 8h | 1,158 | 1,318 |
| 10 | March 26, 2022 13:15 | March 28, 2022 20:15 | 2d 7h | 1,132 | 895 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 121 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2022, 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) | 2022 | 3.0 hrs | 1.30 | 3.0 hrs | 1.30 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2022 | 6.9 hrs | 2.40 | 6.2 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/alabama/lee-county