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2022 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 7.5 hours, a total of 92K customer-hours (Alabama average 4.0 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 973rd of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 11, 2022 11:30 | February 11, 2022 14:45 | 3h 15m | 1,889 | 3,806 |
| 2 | September 18, 2022 11:45 | September 18, 2022 18:15 | 6h 30m | 1,888 | 3,794 |
| 3 | December 31, 2022 01:15 | December 31, 2022 16:30 | 15h 15m | 1,655 | 6,033 |
| 4 | April 5, 2022 12:15 | April 6, 2022 01:30 | 13h 15m | 1,587 | 6,572 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 06:00 | December 23, 2022 21:00 | 15h | 1,496 | 5,291 |
| 6 | March 12, 2022 05:30 | March 12, 2022 21:00 | 15h 30m | 1,391 | 5,762 |
| 7 | June 14, 2022 23:00 | June 15, 2022 09:45 | 10h 45m | 1,285 | 6,429 |
| 8 | December 15, 2022 00:30 | December 15, 2022 20:45 | 20h 15m | 1,238 | 4,528 |
| 9 | June 16, 2022 01:30 | June 16, 2022 18:45 | 17h 15m | 1,082 | 2,621 |
| 10 | June 25, 2022 00:30 | July 11, 2022 22:15 | 16d 21h | 970 | 7,230 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 55 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 3.9 hrs | 2.07 | 3.1 hrs | 1.78 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/alabama/butler-county