Lee County, Florida Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, Florida had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.20 times the US outage time per person and 2.64 times the Florida rate. It ranks 7 of 60 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

502 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Octhardest months

September and October made up 97% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 28, 2022, reached 456,573 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 501.8 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
2015	267,542	268	0
2016	439,092	267	1
2017	27,042,361	287	4
2018	328,099	254	0
2019	197,914	207	0
2020	505,799	368	2
2021	558,883	382	1
2022	68,522,497	429	5
2023	627,101	550	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
Sep 28, 2022	501.8	456,573	65,956,907
Sep 11, 2017	65.0	439,140	11,349,820
Sep 14, 2017	192.5	135,150	10,057,182
Sep 11, 2017	12.0	462,570	2,813,070
Oct 21, 2022	186.8	11,355	1,408,560

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.