Acadia Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Acadia Parish, Louisiana had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.27 times the US outage time per person and 0.64 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 36 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 78% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2020, reached 27,347 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 127.5 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	28,994	55	0
2016	102,198	75	2
2017	112,603	72	2
2018	99,469	84	2
2019	126,954	76	3
2020	3,158,348	81	4
2021	127,446	111	1
2022	187,325	113	1
2023	125,346	79	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	127.5	27,347	2,125,932
Aug 27, 2020	91.2	24,316	871,822
Apr 30, 2017	17.5	6,234	35,722
Oct 15, 2020	19.0	2,210	30,694
Jul 14, 2019	35.0	2,515	26,908

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.