Madison Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Madison Parish, Louisiana had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.75 times the US outage time per person and 0.34 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 53 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Feb, Junhardest months

February and June made up 54% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Feb 18, 2021, reached 2,310 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 100.0 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	8,992	14	0
2016	17,064	24	0
2017	14,497	10	0
2018	12,658	13	1
2019	34,898	16	2
2020	42,510	27	1
2021	155,411	17	2
2022	42,944	27	2
2023	22,030	19	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	100.0	2,310	122,720
Jun 24, 2019	36.2	1,722	20,238
Feb 17, 2021	16.5	1,377	17,373
Aug 27, 2020	29.0	793	15,518
Apr 13, 2022	21.2	926	13,193

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.