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2018 Orleans Parish, LA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Orleans Parish, LA went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 854K customer-hours (Louisiana average 5.1 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 64 Louisiana counties and 1253rd of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with LA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Louisiana customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Orleans Parish, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 15, 2018 20:15 | May 16, 2018 23:15 | 1d 3h | 23,059 | 23K |
| 2 | August 16, 2018 12:30 | August 17, 2018 05:30 | 17h | 20,642 | 16K |
| 3 | October 21, 2018 01:00 | October 21, 2018 12:15 | 11h 15m | 18,001 | 53K |
| 4 | January 16, 2018 13:15 | January 19, 2018 08:00 | 2d 18h | 15,997 | 17K |
| 5 | June 13, 2018 20:00 | June 13, 2018 22:15 | 2h 15m | 13,849 | 3,507 |
| 6 | July 3, 2018 10:00 | July 4, 2018 01:30 | 15h 30m | 13,454 | 30K |
| 7 | October 30, 2018 12:00 | October 31, 2018 04:30 | 16h 30m | 13,047 | 14K |
| 8 | November 14, 2018 11:30 | November 15, 2018 11:00 | 23h 30m | 10,484 | 26K |
| 9 | September 17, 2018 12:15 | September 18, 2018 05:15 | 17h | 7,586 | 11K |
| 10 | August 24, 2018 22:00 | August 25, 2018 05:45 | 7h 45m | 7,137 | 9,969 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 300 reached 100+ customers, 90 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 4.6 hrs | 1.84 | 3.5 hrs | 1.63 |
| Entergy New Orleans, LLC | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 1.81 | 2.5 hrs | 1.73 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 89% of Louisiana's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/louisiana/orleans-parish