Ascension Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

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

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 4.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.89 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 29 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.8major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

405 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Aprhardest months

August and April made up 83% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 51,521 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 404.8 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	418,028	94	2
2016	851,622	115	5
2017	339,369	116	6
2018	141,108	108	0
2019	298,689	118	2
2020	427,234	108	5
2021	10,074,815	176	7
2022	319,488	179	1
2023	408,192	159	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 30, 2021	404.8	51,521	8,631,084
Aug 29, 2021	19.2	54,507	841,645
Aug 14, 2016	60.0	8,315	301,153
Aug 17, 2016	79.8	10,642	283,340
Oct 9, 2020	64.5	11,039	219,519

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.