Assumption Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Assumption Parish, Louisiana had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.44 times the US outage time per person and 1.26 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 20 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

195 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 56% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 10,017 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 195.2 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	234,805	43	2
2016	182,391	24	2
2017	84,676	33	0
2018	50,730	31	0
2019	360,607	31	1
2020	144,084	42	2
2021	1,644,394	38	6
2022	71,286	40	0
2023	67,662	22	1

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	195.2	10,017	974,004
Sep 7, 2021	144.0	5,000	378,378
Jul 12, 2019	94.5	12,744	326,651
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	10,044	170,964
May 20, 2016	67.5	3,919	77,245

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.