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2015 Orleans Parish, LA Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Orleans Parish, LA went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Louisiana average 5.8 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 64 Louisiana counties and 518th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with LA, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Louisiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans Parish, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 24, 2015 16:15 | August 25, 2015 09:15 | 17h | 31,162 | 12K |
| 2 | April 27, 2015 11:15 | April 29, 2015 04:15 | 1d 17h | 14,855 | 204K |
| 3 | May 24, 2015 19:30 | May 27, 2015 05:45 | 2d 10h | 12,526 | 56K |
| 4 | October 25, 2015 09:00 | October 27, 2015 09:45 | 2d | 11,533 | 163K |
| 5 | July 19, 2015 03:00 | July 21, 2015 04:45 | 2d 1h | 9,520 | 41K |
| 6 | December 1, 2015 14:15 | December 2, 2015 06:30 | 16h 15m | 8,875 | 24K |
| 7 | August 23, 2015 06:15 | August 23, 2015 20:00 | 13h 45m | 8,738 | 9,075 |
| 8 | May 6, 2015 07:00 | May 7, 2015 05:30 | 22h 30m | 7,722 | 5,353 |
| 9 | January 8, 2015 11:00 | January 9, 2015 07:30 | 20h 30m | 6,483 | 19K |
| 10 | November 7, 2015 20:15 | November 8, 2015 09:30 | 13h 15m | 5,008 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 298 reached 100+ customers, 99 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Orleans Parish reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Louisiana LLC | 2015 | 6.2 hrs | 2.08 | 2.9 hrs | 1.63 |
| Entergy New Orleans, LLC | 2015 | 3.8 hrs | 1.80 | 2.3 hrs | 1.41 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Louisiana's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 212,936 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Orleans Parish has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Orleans Parish, LA annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/louisiana/orleans-parish