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

St. James Parish, Louisiana had 28 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 8.77 times the US outage time per person and 1.72 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 11 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.1major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

195 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 82% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 9,931 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.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	45,080	33	1
2016	138,330	37	4
2017	72,733	37	4
2018	63,478	32	1
2019	55,156	43	1
2020	90,134	56	2
2021	3,052,060	79	12
2022	73,373	35	1
2023	99,607	55	2

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	9,931	1,825,194
Sep 7, 2021	194.5	9,494	879,306
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	7,865	142,901
Feb 23, 2016	74.5	1,204	45,464
Sep 17, 2021	55.2	2,366	39,478

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.