Beauregard Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Beauregard Parish, Louisiana had 39 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 13.55 times the US outage time per person and 2.66 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 2 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.3major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

404 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 74% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 18,972 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 404.0 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	211,101	143	1
2016	150,224	130	1
2017	228,964	112	5
2018	133,023	71	2
2019	127,341	112	3
2020	9,187,932	99	10
2021	321,554	104	4
2022	262,927	118	6
2023	320,301	120	7

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	404.0	18,972	6,065,189
Oct 9, 2020	168.8	19,201	1,699,822
Sep 17, 2020	165.5	6,080	537,604
Sep 14, 2020	46.5	9,884	415,013
Sep 13, 2020	20.2	9,813	173,072

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.