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2023 Butler County, AL Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Butler County, AL went without power for an average of 24.5 hours, a total of 302K customer-hours (Alabama average 6.3 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 65 Alabama counties and 308th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with AL, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Alabama customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Butler County, 2023
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 14, 2023 19:15 | June 19, 2023 00:30 | 4d 5h | 8,668 | 221K |
| 2 | June 19, 2023 07:45 | June 20, 2023 05:45 | 22h | 3,482 | 19K |
| 3 | August 4, 2023 18:15 | August 5, 2023 07:45 | 13h 30m | 2,295 | 6,425 |
| 4 | January 13, 2023 00:30 | January 13, 2023 02:45 | 2h 15m | 2,108 | 2,622 |
| 5 | July 22, 2023 20:15 | July 23, 2023 11:15 | 15h | 1,609 | 2,362 |
| 6 | May 16, 2023 21:45 | May 17, 2023 03:30 | 5h 45m | 1,084 | 2,123 |
| 7 | August 5, 2023 09:30 | August 5, 2023 22:15 | 12h 45m | 1,017 | 2,156 |
| 8 | August 27, 2023 21:45 | August 27, 2023 22:45 | 1h | 963 | 715 |
| 9 | April 10, 2023 15:45 | April 10, 2023 16:15 | 30m | 962 | 364 |
| 10 | February 9, 2023 17:30 | February 9, 2023 20:30 | 3h | 944 | 2,099 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 67 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 17.8 hrs | 4.16 | 5.4 hrs | 1.98 |
| 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 n/a of Alabama's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/alabama/butler-county