Winn Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Winn Parish, Louisiana had 34 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.55 times the US outage time per person and 1.28 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 19 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

255 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 63% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 5,963 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 254.8 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	32,887	30	2
2016	34,748	23	1
2017	85,661	20	3
2018	54,846	36	4
2019	103,234	23	6
2020	1,158,617	26	5
2021	283,438	28	5
2022	75,458	46	5
2023	104,402	25	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
Aug 27, 2020	254.8	5,963	983,335
Oct 10, 2020	66.2	4,137	144,757
Feb 18, 2021	83.8	3,047	142,189
Jun 16, 2023	65.8	2,550	80,814
May 29, 2017	45.8	2,696	65,992

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.