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2015 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 13K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 30 Alabama counties and 1720th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2015 19:45 | September 15, 2015 20:00 | 15m | 2,010 | 503 |
| 2 | September 12, 2015 21:45 | September 13, 2015 02:30 | 4h 45m | 1,247 | 1,413 |
| 3 | December 23, 2015 12:30 | December 23, 2015 16:30 | 4h | 881 | 893 |
| 4 | May 24, 2015 19:45 | May 24, 2015 23:00 | 3h 15m | 524 | 1,080 |
| 5 | May 30, 2015 09:45 | May 30, 2015 13:00 | 3h 15m | 456 | 876 |
| 6 | May 20, 2015 22:45 | May 21, 2015 05:45 | 7h | 313 | 1,477 |
| 7 | August 11, 2015 22:15 | August 12, 2015 02:15 | 4h | 296 | 366 |
| 8 | September 6, 2015 00:00 | September 6, 2015 08:45 | 8h 45m | 222 | 231 |
| 9 | June 1, 2015 16:00 | June 1, 2015 20:45 | 4h 45m | 218 | 220 |
| 10 | September 2, 2015 15:15 | September 2, 2015 17:30 | 2h 15m | 202 | 205 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 20 reached 100+ customers, 2 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Butler County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2013 | 2.8 hrs | 2.00 | 1.8 hrs | 1.00 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Alabama's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,325 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Butler County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Butler County, AL annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/alabama/butler-county