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2023 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 932K customer-hours (Florida average 3.4 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 67 Florida counties and 2501st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 17, 2023 09:00 | June 25, 2023 07:30 | 7d 22h | 26,132 | 64K |
| 2 | March 13, 2023 12:15 | March 17, 2023 02:15 | 3d 14h | 25,389 | 16K |
| 3 | December 29, 2023 13:00 | December 30, 2023 06:45 | 17h 45m | 9,778 | 13K |
| 4 | March 18, 2023 15:00 | March 30, 2023 08:00 | 11d 17h | 9,750 | 30K |
| 5 | May 30, 2023 10:30 | June 2, 2023 06:45 | 2d 20h | 9,530 | 20K |
| 6 | November 10, 2023 12:00 | November 19, 2023 06:15 | 8d 18h | 9,243 | 49K |
| 7 | April 29, 2023 05:30 | May 2, 2023 11:15 | 3d 5h | 7,367 | 45K |
| 8 | June 2, 2023 09:30 | June 8, 2023 06:00 | 5d 20h | 7,298 | 16K |
| 9 | April 11, 2023 08:30 | April 16, 2023 08:15 | 4d 23h | 6,796 | 40K |
| 10 | October 24, 2023 04:15 | October 27, 2023 04:15 | 3d | 6,767 | 5,019 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 141 reached 100+ customers, 73 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2023 | 78 min | 0.64 | 50 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 n/a of Florida's customers in 2023; 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, 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/florida/lee-county