De Soto Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

De Soto Parish, Louisiana had 74 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.93 times the US outage time per person and 1.36 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 17 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

8.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

185 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 40% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 16, 2023, reached 11,091 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 152.0 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	173,380	146	2
2016	144,235	69	8
2017	633,503	90	8
2018	198,348	69	9
2019	219,824	64	7
2020	883,843	88	6
2021	582,140	83	12
2022	313,826	60	10
2023	1,009,410	73	12

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
Jun 16, 2023	152.0	11,091	716,234
Aug 27, 2020	185.2	12,118	594,055
May 28, 2017	94.0	12,891	446,544
Jan 11, 2021	73.8	6,032	166,331
Feb 18, 2021	83.0	4,156	144,274

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.