Power outage history
Bossier Parish Louisiana
15hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
48th most of 63 in Louisiana 2.4× the national median
Every day since 2015
Eleven years, one night at a time
Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bossier's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2023 was the worst well-recorded year, at 2.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Bossier, hours without power per customer
The record
The biggest outages since 2015
Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.
| Began | Storm | Peak out | Share | Lasted | 90% restored | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 57,023 | 61% | 7.7 d | 4.4 d | 3.6M |
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 28,132 | 30% | 4.3 d | 3.2 d | 1.2M |
| Jul 16, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 23,234 | 25% | 2.0 d | 40 h | 433k |
| Jul 8, 2024 | Hurricane Beryl | 13,565 | 14% | 3.1 d | 2.1 d | 360k |
| Apr 12, 2022 | Tornadoes | 11,965 | 13% | 44 h | 27 h | 270k |
| Apr 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 13,310 | 14% | 44 h | 38 h | 204k |
| Jun 23, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 13,161 | 14% | 47 h | 25 h | 199k |
| May 28, 2021 | Thunderstorms | 13,992 | 15% | 35 h | 30 h | 170k |
| Jun 26, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 17,589 | 19% | 30 h | 26 h | 162k |
| Aug 1, 2016 | Heat | 2,352 | 3% | 2.8 d | – | 154k |
| Jul 24, 2016 | Heat | 2,871 | 3% | 2.7 d | – | 153k |
| Feb 15, 2021 | Winter storm | 19,692 | 21% | 22 h | 7.2 h | 128k |
| Sep 24, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 10,562 | 11% | 36 h | 35 h | 127k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | Tornadoes | 12,031 | 13% | 35 h | 34 h | 126k |
| Apr 12, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 6,631 | 7% | 36 h | 44 h | 119k |
| Apr 26, 2025 | No storm report | 23,974 | 25% | 6.8 h | 4.2 h | 119k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 9,347 | 10% | 42 h | 15 h | 117k |
| Jun 19, 2019 | Tornadoes | 8,828 | 9% | 44 h | 42 h | 102k |
| Jan 10, 2021 | Winter storm | 5,678 | 6% | 23 h | 9.5 h | 81k |
| Apr 24, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,935 | 4% | 22 h | – | 58k |
| Jun 3, 2024 | Flooding | 4,959 | 5% | 25 h | 21 h | 57k |
| Aug 7, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 8,043 | 9% | 14 h | 13 h | 55k |
| Jun 14, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 2,939 | 3% | 26 h | – | 53k |
| May 22, 2024 | Tornadoes | 3,525 | 4% | 20 h | – | 52k |
| May 22, 2020 | No storm report | 19,557 | 21% | 3.0 h | 1.2 h | 51k |
| May 27, 2016 | No storm report | 4,860 | 5% | 19 h | 18 h | 46k |
| Apr 2, 2025 | No storm report | 14,582 | 15% | 3.2 h | 3.0 h | 40k |
| Jun 3, 2023 | Flooding | 2,995 | 3% | 20 h | – | 40k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Flooding | 2,723 | 3% | 23 h | – | 38k |
| Oct 20, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 4,371 | 5% | 19 h | – | 37k |
After the peak
How fast the lights come back
Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.
When it happens
The outage clock
Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.
What was happening
Weather behind the outages
Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bossier from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Thunderstorms 57%
- Tropical storm 17%
- No storm on record 12%
- Tornadoes 8.1%
- Winter storm 2.8%
- Flooding 2.0%
- Heat 1.5%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Bossier
As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Louisiana territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.
| Utility | Type | Outage min / yr | Excl. major storms | Outages / yr | Residential ¢/kWh | Customers |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entergy Louisiana LLC | Investor Owned | 253 | 218 | 1.83 | 11.9 | 962k |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 451 | 332 | 3.02 | 13.8 | 207k |
EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.
Next door
Neighbouring counties
- Bienville 44 h
- Red River 38 h
- Caddo 19 h
- Webster 16 h
- Bossier (this county) 15 h
- Lafayette, AR 15 h
- Miller, AR 13 h
About these numbers
Notes
Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 94,184 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →