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2019 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 4.3 hours, a total of 53K customer-hours (Alabama average 3.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 66 Alabama counties and 1256th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 19, 2019 01:45 | April 19, 2019 20:00 | 18h 15m | 2,041 | 7,221 |
| 2 | October 15, 2019 18:30 | October 16, 2019 12:00 | 17h 30m | 1,883 | 2,733 |
| 3 | July 23, 2019 02:00 | July 23, 2019 03:15 | 1h 15m | 1,012 | 998 |
| 4 | March 14, 2019 15:30 | March 14, 2019 18:15 | 2h 45m | 1,010 | 1,266 |
| 5 | March 15, 2019 18:45 | March 15, 2019 20:45 | 2h | 1,008 | 258 |
| 6 | March 7, 2019 14:45 | March 7, 2019 18:30 | 3h 45m | 944 | 489 |
| 7 | May 9, 2019 20:30 | May 10, 2019 02:00 | 5h 30m | 942 | 4,522 |
| 8 | January 31, 2019 02:45 | January 31, 2019 05:00 | 2h 15m | 934 | 716 |
| 9 | September 24, 2019 18:45 | September 24, 2019 19:00 | 15m | 913 | 228 |
| 10 | March 6, 2019 11:45 | March 6, 2019 15:00 | 3h 15m | 871 | 1,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 54 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2019, 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 81% of Alabama's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/alabama/butler-county