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2023 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 56th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 2155th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 1, 2023 02:30 | June 1, 2023 21:30 | 19h | 2,916 | 3,515 |
| 2 | January 12, 2023 13:00 | January 14, 2023 03:15 | 1d 14h | 2,634 | 7,935 |
| 3 | June 4, 2023 19:45 | June 5, 2023 04:15 | 8h 30m | 2,009 | 3,420 |
| 4 | June 14, 2023 10:45 | June 16, 2023 02:00 | 1d 15h | 1,919 | 5,613 |
| 5 | August 29, 2023 21:00 | August 30, 2023 01:15 | 4h 15m | 1,750 | 2,606 |
| 6 | August 3, 2023 22:45 | August 5, 2023 00:45 | 1d 2h | 1,710 | 7,888 |
| 7 | March 17, 2023 21:30 | March 18, 2023 02:15 | 4h 45m | 1,603 | 715 |
| 8 | March 23, 2023 12:00 | March 23, 2023 15:45 | 3h 45m | 1,482 | 406 |
| 9 | August 15, 2023 07:45 | August 16, 2023 03:45 | 20h | 1,427 | 1,553 |
| 10 | March 27, 2023 11:30 | March 27, 2023 23:00 | 11h 30m | 1,424 | 1,710 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 121 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 4.9 hrs | 1.70 | 3.0 hrs | 1.41 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2023 | 5.5 hrs | 2.34 | - | - |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/lee-county