Allen Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Allen Parish, Louisiana had 37 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 10.01 times the US outage time per person and 1.96 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 8 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.1major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

277 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 66% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 11,805 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 276.8 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	124,507	92	1
2016	53,022	78	0
2017	142,516	70	6
2018	53,340	43	2
2019	69,216	74	2
2020	3,957,627	100	11
2021	225,610	68	5
2022	140,728	83	4
2023	188,648	90	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
Aug 27, 2020	276.8	11,805	2,223,690
Oct 9, 2020	168.5	11,758	887,178
Sep 8, 2020	90.8	5,063	348,200
Sep 14, 2020	46.5	3,353	123,526
Sep 17, 2020	137.5	2,196	106,655

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.