West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.74 times the US outage time per person and 0.54 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 41 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

248 hrslongest major outage

Sep, Aughardest months

September and August made up 46% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Sep 6, 2021, reached 777 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 248.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	28,975	24	1
2016	52,924	28	4
2017	200,795	50	3
2018	22,870	14	2
2019	10,357	15	1
2020	117,953	8	2
2021	355,046	40	5
2022	32,216	46	0
2023	92,033	29	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
Sep 6, 2021	248.0	777	190,759
Oct 10, 2020	97.2	2,448	100,883
Jan 2, 2017	52.2	4,613	98,946
Aug 30, 2021	19.5	4,107	57,103
Sep 3, 2021	55.5	1,180	42,870

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.