Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana had 45 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 12.43 times the US outage time per person and 2.44 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 4 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.0major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

845 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 94% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 26, 2020, reached 103,022 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 845.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	507,625	272	2
2016	386,677	220	4
2017	621,762	235	8
2018	263,382	176	3
2019	275,578	198	4
2020	52,714,702	264	7
2021	854,712	232	4
2022	499,803	242	6
2023	453,011	172	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 26, 2020	845.2	103,022	47,843,535
Oct 9, 2020	272.8	85,666	4,325,151
Feb 16, 2021	47.0	43,274	395,073
Apr 20, 2015	39.5	24,090	178,428
May 17, 2021	27.0	9,265	98,878

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.