Evangeline Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Evangeline Parish, Louisiana had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.43 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 50 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

186 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 59% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 14,085 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 186.0 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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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	50,525	86	1
2016	33,290	59	0
2017	111,407	56	3
2018	36,348	45	1
2019	153,986	59	4
2020	924,334	55	6
2021	136,068	56	2
2022	34,142	43	0
2023	56,511	79	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 27, 2020	186.0	14,085	497,241
Oct 9, 2020	119.8	13,090	337,483
May 19, 2019	53.8	7,082	92,083
Feb 17, 2021	21.8	5,533	50,368
Feb 18, 2021	56.2	1,591	44,817

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.