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2024 Lee County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lee County, AL went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 223K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1968th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Lee County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 18, 2024 21:45 | August 20, 2024 17:00 | 1d 19h | 6,600 | 29K |
| 2 | January 9, 2024 04:15 | January 10, 2024 23:00 | 1d 18h | 4,536 | 27K |
| 3 | December 29, 2024 08:00 | December 30, 2024 01:45 | 17h 45m | 3,935 | 26K |
| 4 | March 18, 2024 18:45 | March 19, 2024 01:30 | 6h 45m | 2,873 | 742 |
| 5 | May 14, 2024 01:30 | May 14, 2024 09:15 | 7h 45m | 2,311 | 820 |
| 6 | November 21, 2024 16:00 | November 22, 2024 01:30 | 9h 30m | 1,956 | 3,309 |
| 7 | May 10, 2024 03:15 | May 11, 2024 04:15 | 1d 1h | 1,573 | 11K |
| 8 | May 23, 2024 10:45 | May 23, 2024 14:45 | 4h | 1,508 | 1,113 |
| 9 | June 17, 2024 10:45 | June 18, 2024 03:30 | 16h 45m | 1,470 | 2,245 |
| 10 | July 9, 2024 18:45 | July 10, 2024 07:15 | 12h 30m | 1,349 | 2,008 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 150 reached 100+ customers, 16 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 5.5 hrs | 1.75 | 3.3 hrs | 1.39 |
| Tallapoosa River Elec Coop Inc | 2024 | 6.3 hrs | 2.26 | 4.1 hrs | 1.92 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/alabama/lee-county