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2017 Orleans Parish, LA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Orleans Parish, LA went without power for an average of 6.9 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Louisiana average 7.2 hours). That ranks 34th worst of 64 Louisiana counties and 762nd of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with LA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Louisiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans Parish, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 29, 2017 10:15 | May 1, 2017 08:15 | 1d 22h | 23,634 | 65K |
| 2 | March 15, 2017 11:45 | March 16, 2017 04:45 | 17h | 13,995 | 16K |
| 3 | February 7, 2017 14:30 | February 23, 2017 22:15 | 16d 7h | 10,421 | 576K |
| 4 | June 20, 2017 06:45 | June 22, 2017 06:15 | 1d 23h | 10,308 | 47K |
| 5 | August 25, 2017 12:00 | August 25, 2017 18:00 | 6h | 7,795 | 12K |
| 6 | September 16, 2017 12:30 | September 16, 2017 23:30 | 11h | 7,247 | 3,792 |
| 7 | June 29, 2017 06:15 | June 30, 2017 04:15 | 22h | 7,091 | 22K |
| 8 | January 26, 2017 20:00 | January 27, 2017 00:45 | 4h 45m | 6,848 | 4,593 |
| 9 | August 30, 2017 13:30 | August 31, 2017 09:45 | 20h 15m | 5,640 | 17K |
| 10 | October 2, 2017 12:00 | October 4, 2017 01:45 | 1d 13h | 5,619 | 31K |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 267 reached 100+ customers, 78 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 6.5 hrs | 2.10 | 2.9 hrs | 1.48 |
| Entergy New Orleans, LLC | 2017 | 5.0 hrs | 1.85 | 3.2 hrs | 1.80 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/louisiana/orleans-parish