East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana had 58 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.19 times the US outage time per person and 0.63 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 38 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

405 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 66% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 153,064 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 404.8 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	1,708,322	433	7
2016	2,635,485	422	7
2017	879,882	432	6
2018	749,804	478	4
2019	1,387,988	439	5
2020	2,988,775	434	7
2021	19,156,240	509	11
2022	1,078,782	580	6
2023	1,253,599	538	5

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 30, 2021	404.8	153,064	13,290,531
Aug 29, 2021	19.2	165,549	2,426,142
Oct 9, 2020	119.0	73,461	2,030,494
Feb 15, 2021	78.2	55,164	1,929,889
Aug 13, 2016	76.5	24,137	1,369,658

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.