City of Lafayette, LA
City of Lafayette's outage record
This is one of the steadier grids on file: City of Lafayette's Louisiana customers went without power for only 30 minutes across 0.7 separate outages last year. That is 89% less outage time than the Louisiana state average of 4.4 hours a year.
How long a single City of Lafayette outage runs
At an average of 43 minutes per outage, most interruptions here end before a fuel generator would even be worth starting up. The frequency-versus-duration guide covers why length decides the kind of backup.
What this means for buying a generator
Serving 71,166 customers here, With a record this steady, City of Lafayette customers rarely have a reason to shop for a backup generator at all.
How City of Lafayette's record was measured
These figures come from EIA Form 861, the reliability report a municipally-owned utility like City of Lafayette files with federal regulators every year - serving 71,166 customers hereaveraged across the whole territory, not any one address or storm. Want the Louisiana average instead of just this one utility? Louisiana's statewide record is here. One big storm can move a single year a lot; major event days explains how.