Concordia Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Concordia Parish, Louisiana had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.62 times the US outage time per person and 0.32 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 55 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

107 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Julhardest months

February and July made up 56% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 3,420 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 107.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	47,891	25	1
2016	33,952	22	1
2017	26,486	19	2
2018	27,560	23	0
2019	57,498	34	3
2020	76,553	28	5
2021	277,148	17	3
2022	35,206	29	0
2023	52,978	39	3

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
Feb 18, 2021	107.0	3,420	207,857
Feb 17, 2021	20.8	4,155	57,853
Jul 26, 2015	24.8	1,885	32,654
Jun 24, 2019	36.8	2,131	30,160
Aug 27, 2020	27.2	2,270	19,790

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.