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Who serves Lee County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alabama Power and Dixie EC ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative and City of Opelika also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Lee County, AL
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 243 customers, restored in ~5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 19 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Lee County, AL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
667 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
5 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Alabama norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~14,390 customers out in May 2021, restored after about 1 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Lee County
Communities in Lee County include Auburn, Opelika, Smiths Station, Loachapoka, Auburn-Opelika, Beauregard-Marvyn, Beulah and Loachapoka-Roxana. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Lee County, AL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Lee include Alabama Power, Tallapoosa River Electric Cooperative, City of Opelika and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
