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2022 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 109.4 hours, a total of 68.8M customer-hours (Florida average 20.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 20th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | September 25, 2022 02:45 | November 10, 2022 23:00 | 46d 20h | 456,573 | 68.1M |
| 2 | January 16, 2022 09:30 | January 21, 2022 02:30 | 4d 17h | 20,451 | 103K |
| 3 | January 21, 2022 12:30 | January 23, 2022 05:45 | 1d 17h | 16,100 | 9,841 |
| 4 | August 28, 2022 15:30 | September 2, 2022 08:00 | 4d 16h | 13,802 | 24K |
| 5 | March 3, 2022 10:00 | March 5, 2022 05:00 | 1d 19h | 9,575 | 12K |
| 6 | June 3, 2022 12:30 | June 9, 2022 06:45 | 5d 18h | 9,328 | 25K |
| 7 | March 9, 2022 06:45 | April 24, 2022 10:15 | 46d 3h | 8,996 | 68K |
| 8 | June 16, 2022 06:30 | June 21, 2022 06:45 | 5d | 7,712 | 26K |
| 9 | September 14, 2022 08:45 | September 21, 2022 07:00 | 6d 22h | 7,156 | 20K |
| 10 | December 11, 2022 19:15 | December 18, 2022 10:00 | 6d 14h | 7,090 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 128 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2022 | 19.2 hrs | 1.11 | 48 min | 0.55 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/florida/lee-county