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2016 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 2.3 hours, a total of 29K customer-hours (Alabama average 0.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 29 Alabama counties and 1224th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 17, 2016 22:45 | June 18, 2016 06:30 | 7h 45m | 3,184 | 13K |
| 2 | May 11, 2016 08:15 | May 11, 2016 10:45 | 2h 30m | 2,061 | 2,273 |
| 3 | November 28, 2016 18:30 | November 28, 2016 19:30 | 1h | 882 | 882 |
| 4 | August 30, 2016 05:00 | August 30, 2016 07:00 | 2h | 727 | 1,118 |
| 5 | August 19, 2016 23:15 | August 19, 2016 23:30 | 15m | 724 | 181 |
| 6 | May 31, 2016 21:30 | May 31, 2016 22:45 | 1h 15m | 719 | 535 |
| 7 | June 29, 2016 15:30 | June 29, 2016 16:00 | 30m | 623 | 156 |
| 8 | July 14, 2016 22:30 | July 15, 2016 01:00 | 2h 30m | 558 | 469 |
| 9 | July 27, 2016 19:00 | July 27, 2016 21:15 | 2h 15m | 453 | 358 |
| 10 | August 26, 2016 19:30 | August 26, 2016 20:15 | 45m | 443 | 288 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 27 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 4.0 hrs | 1.52 | 1.7 hrs | 1.04 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/alabama/butler-county