Power Out Map
– 0% of Lee out 0 customers out in Georgia

Power outage history

Lee County Georgia

6.4hours

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

98th most of 156 in Georgia close to the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Michael · Oct 11, 2018 80% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 6.4h / yr State average 6.7 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 1hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.1days Hurricane Michael, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 83% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 36 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 16,591 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

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 36 hours 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 countyGeorgia average
0 5 10 15 20 0.3 ’15 0.4 ’16 7.3 ’17 36 ’18 2.4 ’19 2.6 ’20 1.9 ’21 0.8 ’22 3.4 ’23 1.9 ’24 1.7 ’25 GA 6.7 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
Oct 10, 2018 Hurricane Michael 13,330 80% 4.1 d 3.1 d 554k
Sep 11, 2017 Hurricane Irma 4,409 27% 2.4 d 2.2 d 95k
Jul 21, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,108 19% 18 h 11 h 23k
Jan 2, 2017 Thunderstorms 1,193 7% 9.8 h 9.2 h 7.9k
Jun 13, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,958 12% 9.0 h 9.8 h 7.7k
May 4, 2021 Thunderstorms 1,457 9% 9.2 h 10 h 6.4k
Feb 12, 2019 No storm report 1,486 9% 5.8 h 5.0 h 5.5k
Mar 16, 2025 No storm report 3,502 21% 3.0 h 2.0 h 4.9k
May 5, 2024 Thunderstorms 825 5% 6.0 h – 4.8k
May 22, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,771 11% 6.2 h 5.5 h 4.8k
Apr 13, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,504 9% 7.5 h 6.0 h 4.2k
Jul 23, 2019 No storm report 565 3% 7.2 h – 4.1k

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 +4h 90% 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 73%
  • No storm on record 17%
  • Thunderstorms 9.1%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lee

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

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Georgia Power Co Investor Owned 287 155 1.83 16.3 2.5M
Albany Utility Board Municipal 199 141 1.88 13.4 32k
Mitchell Electric Member Corp Cooperative 410 349 3.75 17.1 21k
Sumter Electric Member Corp Cooperative 159 134 – 14.6 15k

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 Georgia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Georgia 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 16,591 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 →