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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
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 (median).
Every outage behind these figures (19)
Began
Peak out
Restored in
Weather
Oct 1, 2026
243
~5 hr
no severe weather
Sep 23, 2026
354
~1.2 hr
no severe weather
Sep 19, 2026
675
~5.8 hr
wind/storm
Sep 19, 2026
632
~1.8 hr
no severe weather
Sep 13, 2026
595
~3.5 hr
no severe weather
Sep 11, 2026
272
~2 hr
no severe weather
Sep 7, 2026
410
~3.2 hr
no severe weather
Aug 29, 2026
999
~2.2 hr
no severe weather
Aug 28, 2026
593
~5.3 hr
no severe weather
Aug 23, 2026
1,053
~7.2 hr
no severe weather
Aug 21, 2026
344
~10.7 hr
no severe weather
Aug 18, 2026
547
~42 min
heat event
Aug 9, 2026
926
~5 hr
no severe weather
Aug 6, 2026
314
~9.5 hr
no severe weather
Aug 5, 2026
588
~6 hr
no severe weather
Aug 3, 2026
265
~1.3 hr
no severe weather
Aug 1, 2026
541
~30 min
no severe weather
Jul 26, 2026
601
~4.2 hr
heat event
Jul 23, 2026
714
~3.5 hr
no severe weather
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, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
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.
