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2016 Orleans Parish, LA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Orleans Parish, LA went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Louisiana average 6.8 hours). That ranks 44th worst of 64 Louisiana counties and 667th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with LA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Louisiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans Parish, 2016
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 4, 2016 12:15 | August 6, 2016 01:00 | 1d 12h | 26,343 | 54K |
| 2 | March 19, 2016 03:30 | March 19, 2016 09:45 | 6h 15m | 23,759 | 29K |
| 3 | September 3, 2016 02:00 | September 5, 2016 10:45 | 2d 8h | 22,098 | 15K |
| 4 | September 10, 2016 12:30 | September 11, 2016 23:45 | 1d 11h | 18,767 | 49K |
| 5 | August 12, 2016 02:30 | August 12, 2016 12:15 | 9h 45m | 12,670 | 23K |
| 6 | May 20, 2016 04:00 | May 21, 2016 11:00 | 1d 7h | 9,716 | 50K |
| 7 | February 23, 2016 16:00 | February 24, 2016 08:15 | 16h 15m | 6,729 | 18K |
| 8 | May 30, 2016 16:00 | May 31, 2016 12:30 | 20h 30m | 6,372 | 7,592 |
| 9 | March 10, 2016 15:30 | March 12, 2016 02:00 | 1d 10h | 5,924 | 59K |
| 10 | July 25, 2016 14:00 | July 26, 2016 03:30 | 13h 30m | 5,554 | 10K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 321 reached 100+ customers, 107 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 6.7 hrs | 1.75 | 2.8 hrs | 1.47 |
| Entergy New Orleans, LLC | 2016 | 3.4 hrs | 1.87 | 3.2 hrs | 1.82 |
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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/louisiana/orleans-parish