Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana had 72 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 7.71 times the US outage time per person and 1.51 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 13 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

638 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Dechardest months

August and December made up 78% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2021, reached 68,621 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 577.0 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	472,273	153	5
2016	629,904	162	9
2017	1,501,889	152	6
2018	480,457	194	4
2019	1,241,718	205	9
2020	889,033	204	11
2021	17,476,946	277	12
2022	521,890	267	5
2023	515,618	236	11

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 29, 2021	577.0	68,621	16,360,383
Dec 8, 2017	80.8	34,037	1,170,596
Oct 26, 2019	68.0	20,004	449,893
Feb 15, 2021	72.8	13,390	291,429
Sep 24, 2021	638.2	5,717	246,040

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.