Orleans Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Orleans Parish, Louisiana had 58 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 5.97 times the US outage time per person and 1.17 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 22 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

6.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

199 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Octhardest months

August and October made up 84% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 30, 2021, reached 181,040 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 195.2 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	935,580	309	4
2016	872,130	352	5
2017	1,287,884	326	8
2018	645,578	372	3
2019	937,092	274	7
2020	8,873,303	418	11
2021	32,632,308	343	9
2022	844,191	464	7
2023	640,052	349	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 30, 2021	195.2	181,040	26,909,330
Oct 28, 2020	28.2	160,779	3,480,050
Aug 29, 2021	18.2	177,904	3,221,869
Oct 31, 2020	66.5	71,776	2,144,528
Oct 30, 2020	13.0	108,209	1,348,271

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.