Union Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union Parish, Louisiana had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 6.26 times the US outage time per person and 1.23 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 21 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

240 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 63% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 27, 2020, reached 13,543 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 240.5 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	21,881	16	2
2016	43,922	19	3
2017	8,913	13	0
2018	21,211	18	1
2019	50,670	25	3
2020	1,821,775	84	8
2021	217,308	79	8
2022	183,593	72	5
2023	469,340	77	5

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 27, 2020	240.5	13,543	1,474,307
Jun 18, 2023	37.8	6,672	149,132
Jul 16, 2023	42.5	8,002	142,340
Jan 11, 2020	63.0	3,019	82,268
Oct 10, 2020	55.2	4,908	78,608

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.