Power Out Map
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Power outage history

Lee County Florida

17hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

19th most of 67 in Florida 2.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Ian · Sep 28, 2022 73% of customers out · 90% back in 8.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 17h / yr State average 7.8 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 7.7days Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 23.1days Hurricane Ian, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 98% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2022 4.6 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 628,635 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Lee's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2022 was the worst well-recorded year, at 4.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lee, hours without power per customer

LeeUS median countyFlorida average
0 50 100 150 0.6 ’15 0.9 ’16 43 ’17 0.7 ’18 0.6 ’19 1.1 ’20 1.2 ’21 109 ’22 1.4 ’23 21 ’24 1.1 ’25 FL 7.8 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Sep 28, 2022 Hurricane Ian 456,573 73% 23.1 d 8.4 d 67M
Sep 10, 2017 Hurricane Irma 462,570 74% 11.1 d 7.7 d 27M
Oct 9, 2024 Hurricane Milton 273,470 44% 5.2 d 2.7 d 12M
Oct 21, 2022 No storm report 11,355 2% 2.9 d 18 h 764k
Sep 26, 2024 Hurricane Helene 42,434 7% 29 h 21 h 483k
Oct 25, 2022 No storm report 9,205 1% 2.0 d 24 h 387k
Dec 21, 2021 Tornadoes 19,976 3% 5.2 h 7.2 h 63k
Jan 16, 2022 Tornadoes 16,927 3% 4.8 h 7.0 h 59k
Jan 15, 2016 Thunderstorms 22,080 4% 3.8 h 4.5 h 35k
Jan 17, 2016 Thunderstorms 16,119 3% 2.8 h 4.5 h 32k
Nov 11, 2020 Hurricane Eta 13,891 2% 3.0 h 6.0 h 25k
Oct 30, 2024 No storm report 20,208 3% 3.0 h 12 min 22k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +10h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Lee from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 98%
  • No storm on record 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lee

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Florida territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Lee County Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative 58 58 0.88 14.2 237k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across Florida

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Florida counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 628,635 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →