Louisiana Power Outages by Parish

Louisiana averaged 5.10 times the US outage time per person

That ranks 1 of 50 states and DC, where 1 has the most. August and October made up 69% of outage time. Records run from 2015 to 2023, and some counties start later.

St. Helena Parish had the most outage time per resident of 61 rated parishes.

Parishes ranked by outage time

Rank	Parish	Major outages per year	Longest (hours)	Times US rate
1	St. Helena Parish	2.0	408	14.07
2	Beauregard Parish	4.3	404	13.55
3	Sabine Parish	9.3	287	12.73
4	Calcasieu Parish	5.0	845	12.43
5	Lafourche Parish	3.2	1,036	11.10
6	Red River Parish	4.2	125	10.29
7	St. John the Baptist Parish	3.9	336	10.19
8	Allen Parish	4.1	277	10.01
9	Plaquemines Parish	2.6	257	9.56
10	St. Charles Parish	3.3	290	9.41
11	St. James Parish	3.1	195	8.77
12	Vernon Parish	7.6	373	8.53
13	Tangipahoa Parish	8.0	638	7.71
14	Natchitoches Parish	7.4	280	7.51
15	Jefferson Parish	5.9	1,036	7.43
16	Grant Parish	5.2	337	7.36
17	De Soto Parish	8.2	185	6.93
18	Terrebonne Parish	4.4	492	6.75
19	Winn Parish	3.8	255	6.55
20	Assumption Parish	1.6	195	6.44
21	Union Parish	3.9	240	6.26
22	Orleans Parish	6.4	199	5.97
23	Jackson Parish	3.3	178	5.83
24	Bienville Parish	4.9	207	5.67
25	St. Bernard Parish	2.2	186	5.51
26	Caldwell Parish	1.8	120	5.33
27	Livingston Parish	4.4	462	5.11
28	East Feliciana Parish	2.6	248	5.04
29	Ascension Parish	3.8	405	4.52
30	Jefferson Davis Parish	2.4	601	4.46
31	Caddo Parish	12.1	222	4.01
32	Rapides Parish	5.1	396	3.76
33	St. Tammany Parish	2.9	292	3.57
34	Bossier Parish	9.8	233	3.53
35	Claiborne Parish	2.9	155	3.34
36	Acadia Parish	1.9	128	3.27
36	LaSalle Parish	1.7	145	3.27
38	East Baton Rouge Parish	6.4	405	3.19
39	Avoyelles Parish	3.3	212	3.15
40	Washington Parish	1.9	256	3.07
41	West Feliciana Parish	2.2	248	2.74
42	Ouachita Parish	3.9	230	2.66
43	Iberia Parish	2.2	92	2.60
44	East Carroll Parish	1.0	80	2.47
45	Webster Parish	4.6	185	2.39
46	Morehouse Parish	2.7	82	2.37
47	Iberville Parish	2.2	195	2.35
48	St. Landry Parish	2.7	144	2.24
48	Vermilion Parish	2.0	128	2.24
50	Evangeline Parish	1.9	186	2.20
51	Lincoln Parish	2.9	200	1.81
52	Richland Parish	1.7	82	1.76
53	Madison Parish	1.2	100	1.75
54	St. Martin Parish	2.2	146	1.72
55	Concordia Parish	2.0	107	1.62
56	St. Mary Parish	0.8	71	1.59
57	Pointe Coupee Parish	1.8	96	1.51
58	West Baton Rouge Parish	1.8	96	1.37
59	Franklin Parish	1.0	81	1.22
60	Lafayette Parish	0.8	127	0.69
61	West Carroll Parish	0.7	69	0.53

Rank uses outage time per resident. Times US rate compares each parish with the national average.

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These parishes have short histories, very small populations, or customer counts that look too high for the population.

Louisiana averaged 5.10 times the US outage time per person

Parishes ranked by outage time

When outages hit Louisiana

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