Washington Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington Parish, Louisiana had 17 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 3.07 times the US outage time per person and 0.60 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 40 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.9major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

256 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 72% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 29, 2021, reached 19,709 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 255.8 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	74,779	80	0
2016	89,600	58	0
2017	111,934	69	1
2018	106,220	61	3
2019	218,102	63	1
2020	137,269	74	3
2021	2,105,203	94	4
2022	69,147	77	1
2023	138,800	75	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 29, 2021	255.8	19,709	1,877,603
Oct 26, 2019	58.0	9,041	135,330
Feb 15, 2021	33.2	7,731	57,092
Dec 8, 2017	43.2	2,172	42,862
Nov 1, 2018	25.2	2,426	22,591

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.