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2018 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 9.1 hours, a total of 112K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.9 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 623rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2018
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 28, 2018 22:00 | July 1, 2018 01:30 | 2d 3h | 6,235 | 54K |
| 2 | September 12, 2018 16:15 | September 12, 2018 18:30 | 2h 15m | 4,721 | 5,751 |
| 3 | August 23, 2018 14:00 | August 23, 2018 17:30 | 3h 30m | 2,086 | 658 |
| 4 | August 4, 2018 05:30 | August 6, 2018 19:30 | 2d 14h | 2,084 | 3,637 |
| 5 | March 26, 2018 14:00 | March 26, 2018 14:30 | 30m | 1,999 | 1,000 |
| 6 | August 21, 2018 13:45 | August 21, 2018 23:45 | 10h | 1,452 | 2,797 |
| 7 | June 9, 2018 22:15 | June 10, 2018 11:00 | 12h 45m | 1,337 | 3,637 |
| 8 | May 29, 2018 01:15 | May 29, 2018 18:00 | 16h 45m | 1,310 | 4,512 |
| 9 | June 26, 2018 21:00 | June 27, 2018 06:00 | 9h | 1,211 | 2,190 |
| 10 | October 4, 2018 13:00 | October 4, 2018 19:45 | 6h 45m | 1,011 | 477 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 57 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pioneer Electric Coop, Inc - (AL) | 2018 | 8.3 hrs | 3.01 | 3.7 hrs | 2.37 |
| South Alabama Elec Coop, Inc | 2018 | 4.2 hrs | 2.12 | 2.1 hrs | 1.41 |
| Alabama Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 79% of Alabama's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/alabama/butler-county