Lee County, Georgia Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lee County, Georgia had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.12 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Georgia rate. It ranks 66 of 148 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

3 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Sephardest months

October and September made up 79% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2018, reached 13,330 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 99.5 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	1,231	3	0
2016	5,802	4	0
2017	111,970	23	2
2018	581,751	49	2
2019	29,432	39	0
2020	32,982	37	0
2021	21,803	28	0
2022	5,492	15	0
2023	46,579	22	2

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	99.5	13,330	554,100
Sep 11, 2017	58.5	4,409	95,459
Jul 22, 2023	17.0	3,108	22,615
Jan 3, 2017	9.5	1,193	7,851
Jun 13, 2023	9.0	1,958	7,680

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.