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

St. Martin Parish, Louisiana had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.72 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 54 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

146 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 58% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2020, reached 22,794 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 121.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	78,790	70	0
2016	96,969	67	2
2017	70,488	51	2
2018	49,070	59	1
2019	310,715	51	3
2020	1,041,895	56	5
2021	149,572	70	4
2022	62,662	67	1
2023	82,860	57	2

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
Oct 9, 2020	121.0	22,794	776,710
Jul 13, 2019	69.5	9,619	229,046
Aug 27, 2020	43.0	11,837	189,204
Aug 31, 2021	146.2	3,221	45,904
May 20, 2016	19.5	2,467	14,941

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.