How often does Tiana's Bayou Adventure break down?

Over the last 90 days we recorded 113 real breakdown episodes for Tiana's Bayou Adventure — about 8.8 per week, spread across 68 different days. These are observed status changes from live park data, not estimates.

How long is Tiana's Bayou Adventure usually down when it breaks down?

The median recorded outage for Tiana's Bayou Adventure lasted 50 minutes (average 66 minutes). The longest outage we observed in the last 90 days lasted 514 minutes, on 2026-07-30.

Tiana's Bayou Adventure Reliability & Wait Patterns

Magic Kingdom · Frontierland · Based on 24672 wait-time samples

Data updated October 12, 2026 · refreshed weekly from the last 180 days

0.42

Volatility Index (typical within-day swing)

Moderately volatile — expect meaningful swings through the day.

40m

Typical (p50) wait

60m

Busy (p90) wait

80m

Worst-case (p99)

160m

Highest (last 180 days)

Weekend vs Weekday

32m

Weekday average

32m

Weekend average

0.98×

Weekend multiplier

Real breakdown history (last 90 days)

Actual downtime episodes recorded by our live status tracker — every time Tiana's Bayou Adventure flipped to DOWN and came back. Observed data, not estimates.

113

Recorded breakdowns

50m

Typical (median) outage

8h 34m

Longest outage (2026-07-30)

8.8

Breakdowns per week

Most recent outages

Date	Down for
2026-10-17	1h 47m
2026-10-16	16m
2026-10-15	10m
2026-10-15	47m
2026-10-14	1h 54m
2026-10-13	1h 57m
2026-10-13	1h 19m
2026-10-10	36m

Episodes under 5 minutes are excluded as status flicker; the typical-outage figure also excludes rare multi-hour artifacts (>8h). Breakdowns hit 68 different days in this window.

Downtime by hour

Share of running time the ride was down for an unplanned breakdown, by hour of the day (park-local time). Scheduled closures and refurbishments are not counted.

8
11%

9
15%

10
7%

11
4%

12
4%

13
8%

14
12%

15
13%

16
15%

17
12%

18
12%

19
10%

20
8%

21
10%

22
8%

23
4%

Best & worst hours by day of week

Average standby wait (minutes). Green = lowest of day, red = highest.

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	12	26	35	44	44	44	49	48	49	48	46	36	24	14
Tue	–	16	25	32	36	36	35	33	30	35	34	29	21	18	11
Wed	–	13	26	38	46	48	46	52	55	47	50	48	40	30	26
Thu	–	11	26	36	37	36	36	32	32	40	50	39	32	24	14
Fri	6	11	20	32	36	36	32	37	38	35	41	27	23	19	14
Sat	7	8	24	38	44	48	44	50	51	51	49	48	37	29	17
Sun	6	11	26	32	38	37	38	35	34	33	34	27	23	14	10

Weather effect on waits

How the wait changed in each kind of weather, compared with this ride at the same hour on the same weekday within three weeks. Only differences marked “clear signal” are larger than day-to-day noise.

-0m

Cloudy · 610 ride-hours · within noise

-1m

Light Rain · 59 ride-hours · within noise

-5m

Heavy Rain · 88 ride-hours · clear signal

+1m

Clear · 197 ride-hours · within noise

When this ride goes down

These rides get busier when Tiana's Bayou Adventure is reported DOWN, compared with the same hour on a normal day:

Big Thunder Mountain Railroad

+4m (13%)

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DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	12	26	35	44	44	44	49	48	49	48	46	36	24	14
Tue	–	16	25	32	36	36	35	33	30	35	34	29	21	18	11
Wed	–	13	26	38	46	48	46	52	55	47	50	48	40	30	26
Thu	–	11	26	36	37	36	36	32	32	40	50	39	32	24	14
Fri	6	11	20	32	36	36	32	37	38	35	41	27	23	19	14
Sat	7	8	24	38	44	48	44	50	51	51	49	48	37	29	17
Sun	6	11	26	32	38	37	38	35	34	33	34	27	23	14	10

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	12	26	35	44	44	44	49	48	49	48	46	36	24	14
Tue	–	16	25	32	36	36	35	33	30	35	34	29	21	18	11
Wed	–	13	26	38	46	48	46	52	55	47	50	48	40	30	26
Thu	–	11	26	36	37	36	36	32	32	40	50	39	32	24	14
Fri	6	11	20	32	36	36	32	37	38	35	41	27	23	19	14
Sat	7	8	24	38	44	48	44	50	51	51	49	48	37	29	17
Sun	6	11	26	32	38	37	38	35	34	33	34	27	23	14	10

DOW	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
Mon	–	12	26	35	44	44	44	49	48	49	48	46	36	24	14
Tue	–	16	25	32	36	36	35	33	30	35	34	29	21	18	11
Wed	–	13	26	38	46	48	46	52	55	47	50	48	40	30	26
Thu	–	11	26	36	37	36	36	32	32	40	50	39	32	24	14
Fri	6	11	20	32	36	36	32	37	38	35	41	27	23	19	14
Sat	7	8	24	38	44	48	44	50	51	51	49	48	37	29	17
Sun	6	11	26	32	38	37	38	35	34	33	34	27	23	14	10