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2023 Lee County, GA Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Lee County, GA went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 57K customer-hours (Georgia average 6.6 hours). That ranks 120th worst of 159 Georgia counties and 1814th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with GA, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Georgia 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 | July 22, 2023 02:45 | July 23, 2023 07:45 | 1d 5h | 3,108 | 23K |
| 2 | August 8, 2023 21:15 | August 9, 2023 05:15 | 8h | 2,418 | 3,694 |
| 3 | June 13, 2023 20:00 | June 14, 2023 05:30 | 9h 30m | 1,958 | 7,681 |
| 4 | August 29, 2023 20:00 | August 30, 2023 02:45 | 6h 45m | 1,449 | 3,972 |
| 5 | June 12, 2023 21:45 | June 13, 2023 00:00 | 2h 15m | 841 | 1,072 |
| 6 | June 18, 2023 14:00 | June 18, 2023 14:15 | 15m | 746 | 187 |
| 7 | April 1, 2023 17:30 | April 2, 2023 00:45 | 7h 15m | 669 | 2,061 |
| 8 | June 12, 2023 09:15 | June 12, 2023 14:30 | 5h 15m | 506 | 741 |
| 9 | September 1, 2023 16:15 | September 1, 2023 17:45 | 1h 30m | 492 | 249 |
| 10 | June 21, 2023 15:30 | June 21, 2023 20:30 | 5h | 452 | 673 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 29 reached 100+ customers, 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Power Co | 2023 | 6.1 hrs | 1.75 | 2.3 hrs | 1.24 |
| Sumter Electric Member Corp | 2023 | 5.9 hrs | - | 2.5 hrs | - |
| Albany Utility Board | 2023 | 1.9 hrs | 1.28 | 88 min | 1.14 |
| Mitchell Electric Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Georgia's customers in 2023; 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, 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/georgia/lee-county