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Who serves Butler County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Alabama Power and South Alabama Electric Cooperative ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Pioneer Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Butler County, AL
Last significant outage: Sep 26, 2026 — peaked at 540 customers, restored in ~42 min (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 30, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Butler County, AL
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
373 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Alabama norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~8,668 customers out in June 2023, restored after about 3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Butler County include Greenville, Georgiana, McKenzie, Chapman, Forest Home and Georgiana-McKenzie. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Butler County, AL?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Butler include Alabama Power, South Alabama Electric Cooperative and Pioneer Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
