St. Helena Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Helena Parish, Louisiana had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 14.07 times the US outage time per person and 2.76 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 1 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

408 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 84% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 8,648 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 407.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	12,878	33	0
2016	66,385	52	3
2017	132,651	32	3
2018	52,780	43	2
2019	36,327	64	1
2020	185,196	46	3
2021	2,799,420	59	5
2022	32,527	52	0
2023	44,009	46	1

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
Aug 30, 2021	407.8	8,648	2,446,501
Feb 15, 2021	76.5	6,146	216,134
Oct 9, 2020	68.5	6,685	138,630
Dec 8, 2017	60.8	3,720	100,598
Aug 29, 2021	19.2	4,626	50,164

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.