West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.37 times the US outage time per person and 0.27 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 58 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

96 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 47% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 10, 2020, reached 10,103 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 96.2 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	76,886	44	1
2016	17,818	22	0
2017	21,266	19	0
2018	30,778	38	1
2019	111,079	45	1
2020	278,821	40	4
2021	221,232	41	6
2022	57,174	31	2
2023	41,826	29	1

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
Oct 10, 2020	96.2	10,103	214,478
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	5,868	78,865
Jul 13, 2019	61.5	6,752	60,504
Feb 16, 2021	28.2	2,788	46,176
Feb 15, 2021	14.5	2,651	29,415

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.