Lee County, Alabama Power Outages, 2017 to 2023

Lee County, Alabama had 9 major outages from 2017 to 2023

Lower outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.30 times the US outage time per person and 0.27 times the Alabama rate. It ranks 58 of 66 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 7 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

4 of 7years with a major outage

38 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Mayhardest months

October and May made up 33% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 6,520 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 22.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2017	10,811	13	0
2018	215,424	94	2
2019	174,410	96	2
2020	250,723	104	3
2021	158,072	88	2
2022	66,618	95	0
2023	88,066	96	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Oct 10, 2018	22.2	6,520	93,286
Apr 13, 2020	25.0	7,839	85,627
Mar 3, 2019	29.2	11,354	82,358
Oct 29, 2020	37.5	5,512	44,037
May 5, 2021	9.2	6,668	40,784

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.