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2021 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 77K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.6 hours). That ranks 24th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 1123rd of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 4, 2021 23:15 | May 6, 2021 16:30 | 1d 17h | 3,276 | 26K |
| 2 | January 10, 2021 05:15 | January 10, 2021 07:00 | 1h 45m | 2,007 | 3,387 |
| 3 | May 21, 2021 12:30 | May 21, 2021 16:15 | 3h 45m | 1,793 | 2,102 |
| 4 | March 31, 2021 20:30 | April 1, 2021 05:15 | 8h 45m | 1,303 | 4,093 |
| 5 | May 28, 2021 15:15 | May 28, 2021 16:45 | 1h 30m | 1,183 | 689 |
| 6 | April 24, 2021 10:30 | April 24, 2021 21:15 | 10h 45m | 1,177 | 2,965 |
| 7 | April 24, 2021 22:00 | April 25, 2021 06:00 | 8h | 1,023 | 3,337 |
| 8 | August 29, 2021 17:00 | August 29, 2021 21:30 | 4h 30m | 869 | 1,664 |
| 9 | May 6, 2021 20:30 | May 6, 2021 21:45 | 1h 15m | 865 | 217 |
| 10 | January 10, 2021 11:30 | January 10, 2021 13:00 | 1h 30m | 863 | 217 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 49 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 2.8 hrs | 1.28 | 2.3 hrs | 1.16 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/alabama/butler-county