Webster Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Webster Parish, Louisiana had 41 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.39 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 45 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

185 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aprhardest months

June and April made up 40% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 5,594 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 184.8 hours.

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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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Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	47,361	54	1
2016	97,622	57	5
2017	46,459	42	2
2018	75,917	54	3
2019	131,879	58	3
2020	686,638	69	11
2021	155,902	76	6
2022	178,139	67	4
2023	427,816	65	6

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
Jun 16, 2023	184.8	5,594	281,053
Aug 27, 2020	85.8	7,641	252,891
Jan 11, 2020	77.0	5,646	193,491
Apr 13, 2022	41.0	5,655	101,432
Jul 16, 2023	45.0	4,600	68,862

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.