Franklin Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Franklin Parish, Louisiana had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.22 times the US outage time per person and 0.24 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 59 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

5 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Mayhardest months

February and May made up 66% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 6,328 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 80.8 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	9,963	11	0
2016	7,980	17	0
2017	87,389	21	2
2018	8,685	15	0
2019	16,860	19	1
2020	93,783	24	3
2021	273,334	15	2
2022	10,464	18	1
2023	4,458	7	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
Feb 18, 2021	80.8	6,328	223,953
May 29, 2017	48.2	5,278	68,554
Aug 27, 2020	31.8	3,896	48,212
Feb 17, 2021	19.2	4,877	38,972
Mar 10, 2020	3.5	5,295	17,213

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.