St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 10.19 times the US outage time per person and 2.00 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 7 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

336 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Sephardest months

August and September made up 83% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 19,726 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	93,464	42	0
2016	489,604	32	3
2017	43,381	34	1
2018	113,423	58	0
2019	153,816	69	3
2020	276,150	65	6
2021	7,385,797	102	14
2022	161,462	65	4
2023	180,549	60	4

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	19,726	3,744,761
Sep 7, 2021	336.2	19,001	2,920,726
Feb 23, 2016	78.0	9,981	372,060
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	19,076	347,602
Oct 28, 2020	25.5	6,929	99,498

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.