Caldwell Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Caldwell Parish, Louisiana had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.33 times the US outage time per person and 1.04 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 26 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

120 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Febhardest months

August and February made up 66% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2020, reached 6,179 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 119.5 hours.

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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	12,547	20	1
2016	20,142	21	1
2017	55,610	12	1
2018	16,073	18	0
2019	88,143	27	3
2020	585,565	22	4
2021	266,373	24	5
2022	42,505	25	1
2023	14,681	13	0

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 29, 2020	119.5	6,179	293,811
Aug 27, 2020	32.8	6,121	181,984
Feb 18, 2021	83.8	2,954	168,619
Oct 10, 2020	70.2	3,041	66,126
Jun 24, 2019	63.0	1,526	53,651

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.