Vermilion Parish, Louisiana Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Vermilion Parish, Louisiana had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.24 times the US outage time per person and 0.44 times the Louisiana rate. It ranks 48 of 61 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

128 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 72% of this parish's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 9, 2020, reached 18,647 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 128.5 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	43,184	47	1
2016	151,896	59	1
2017	93,046	68	3
2018	44,124	56	0
2019	134,194	45	3
2020	2,019,242	56	5
2021	102,968	81	2
2022	117,529	92	0
2023	131,764	69	3

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 9, 2020	128.5	18,647	1,223,878
Aug 27, 2020	92.0	18,996	703,798
May 20, 2016	25.5	12,116	94,171
Jul 14, 2019	33.2	6,045	66,936
Oct 15, 2020	19.5	3,853	22,210

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.