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2020 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 30.3 hours, a total of 373K customer-hours (Alabama average 22.1 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 276th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 29, 2020 03:15 | November 4, 2020 22:30 | 6d 19h | 8,080 | 155K |
| 2 | September 15, 2020 22:45 | September 18, 2020 21:00 | 2d 22h | 6,019 | 92K |
| 3 | April 12, 2020 18:45 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | 2d | 4,552 | 30K |
| 4 | April 20, 2020 03:15 | April 22, 2020 00:15 | 1d 21h | 3,221 | 28K |
| 5 | June 18, 2020 12:30 | June 18, 2020 20:45 | 8h 15m | 2,508 | 1,292 |
| 6 | January 11, 2020 17:15 | January 13, 2020 03:45 | 1d 10h | 2,490 | 13K |
| 7 | March 31, 2020 14:30 | March 31, 2020 22:30 | 8h | 2,272 | 2,229 |
| 8 | November 19, 2020 14:30 | November 19, 2020 18:00 | 3h 30m | 1,953 | 1,108 |
| 9 | June 28, 2020 21:00 | June 29, 2020 02:45 | 5h 45m | 1,301 | 3,199 |
| 10 | June 8, 2020 06:30 | June 8, 2020 18:00 | 11h 30m | 1,171 | 2,211 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 28.0 hrs | 3.72 | 3.1 hrs | 1.79 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/alabama/butler-county