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2024 Lee County, FL Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Lee County, FL went without power for an average of 20.8 hours, a total of 13.1M customer-hours (Florida average 24.6 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 67 Florida counties and 486th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with FL, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Florida 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 | September 26, 2024 07:00 | November 14, 2024 07:15 | 49d | 273,470 | 12.4M |
| 2 | August 4, 2024 05:30 | August 17, 2024 09:15 | 13d 3h | 6,368 | 66K |
| 3 | July 2, 2024 04:15 | July 14, 2024 06:15 | 12d 2h | 5,974 | 35K |
| 4 | August 25, 2024 05:00 | August 31, 2024 04:45 | 5d 23h | 5,457 | 29K |
| 5 | June 11, 2024 09:15 | June 20, 2024 03:15 | 8d 18h | 4,906 | 28K |
| 6 | March 31, 2024 20:45 | April 7, 2024 02:30 | 6d 5h | 4,781 | 10K |
| 7 | February 4, 2024 13:15 | February 5, 2024 08:15 | 19h | 4,170 | 2,346 |
| 8 | December 25, 2024 04:30 | January 1, 2025 00:00 | 6d 19h | 3,859 | 14K |
| 9 | February 14, 2024 10:15 | February 17, 2024 07:30 | 2d 21h | 3,799 | 4,179 |
| 10 | December 2, 2024 07:30 | December 3, 2024 11:00 | 1d 3h | 3,733 | 7,569 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 92 reached 100+ customers, 45 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Florida Power & Light Co | 2024 | 11.7 hrs | 1.04 | 46 min | 0.44 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/florida/lee-county