Lafourche Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Lafourche Parish, Louisiana had 29 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 11.10 times the US outage time per person and 2.18 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 5 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

1,036 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 84% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 7, 2021, reached 43,658 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 1035.8 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Louisiana parishes

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	417,577	91	2
2016	152,234	77	1
2017	364,576	73	3
2018	217,644	92	1
2019	527,166	64	1
2020	1,409,916	142	8
2021	19,695,571	119	9
2022	289,286	118	1
2023	212,548	90	3

When outages hit

Share of this parish's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Sep 7, 2021	1035.8	43,658	9,890,571
Aug 30, 2021	195.2	44,233	8,524,452
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	43,435	766,785
Jul 12, 2019	97.0	19,407	411,247
Oct 28, 2020	28.0	16,506	372,823

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the parish were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of parish residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a parish. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a parish look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.