St. Charles Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. Charles Parish, Louisiana had 30 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 9.41 times the US outage time per person and 1.85 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 10 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.3major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

290 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 84% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 22,708 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 195.2 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.

2.5M

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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	128,408	68	4
2016	84,602	53	1
2017	88,206	55	2
2018	130,140	61	2
2019	162,130	46	3
2020	900,583	62	6
2021	8,797,498	92	11
2022	79,784	59	1
2023	71,519	33	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 30, 2021	195.2	22,708	4,269,213
Sep 7, 2021	290.0	22,166	3,834,354
Oct 28, 2020	27.5	17,872	436,374
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	21,820	397,755
Oct 31, 2020	66.0	7,105	137,776

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.