Power outage history
Evangeline Parish Louisiana
9.8hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
59th most of 63 in Louisiana 1.5× 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 Evangeline's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 43 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Evangeline, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 27, 2020 | Hurricane Laura | 14,085 | 63% | 7.7 d | 2.4 d | 497k |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 13,090 | 58% | 4.4 d | 37 h | 334k |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Ice storm | 5,533 | 25% | 3.3 d | 48 h | 95k |
| May 19, 2019 | Tornadoes | 7,082 | 32% | 2.2 d | 19 h | 92k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 3,666 | 16% | 26 h | 23 h | 37k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Flooding | 4,053 | 18% | 19 h | 8.5 h | 32k |
| Jan 2, 2017 | Tornadoes | 3,455 | 15% | 15 h | 11 h | 25k |
| Apr 9, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 5,429 | 24% | 11 h | 7.8 h | 24k |
| Apr 10, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 4,820 | 21% | 30 h | 28 h | 23k |
| May 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 2,504 | 11% | 19 h | 14 h | 22k |
| Dec 8, 2017 | Winter storm | 4,245 | 19% | 13 h | 5.5 h | 18k |
| Jul 13, 2019 | Hurricane Barry | 1,788 | 8% | 17 h | 9.2 h | 14k |
| Feb 16, 2021 | No storm report | 8,181 | 36% | 2.8 h | 2.2 h | 14k |
| Feb 13, 2020 | No storm report | 1,298 | 6% | 9.8 h | 14 h | 13k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | No storm report | 3,091 | 14% | 8.2 h | 5.5 h | 11k |
| Aug 8, 2020 | No storm report | 2,496 | 11% | 13 h | 1.2 h | 10k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | No storm report | 1,957 | 9% | 11 h | 8.5 h | 8.1k |
| Jun 24, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 1,343 | 6% | 20 h | 8.5 h | 7.6k |
| Jul 5, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 2,820 | 13% | 4.5 h | 3.5 h | 6.2k |
| Apr 14, 2018 | No storm report | 2,044 | 9% | 5.8 h | 4.0 h | 6.0k |
| Nov 5, 2022 | No storm report | 1,576 | 7% | 6.5 h | 4.5 h | 6.0k |
| Apr 7, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 1,003 | 4% | 11 h | – | 5.9k |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Tornadoes | 1,258 | 6% | 7.8 h | 8.0 h | 5.7k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | No storm report | 2,164 | 10% | 5.8 h | 5.2 h | 5.2k |
| Jul 14, 2019 | Hurricane Barry | 702 | 3% | 9.0 h | – | 5.1k |
| Jun 6, 2019 | Tornadoes | 1,548 | 7% | 7.0 h | 3.8 h | 4.8k |
| Apr 18, 2019 | Flooding | 1,936 | 9% | 2.5 h | 2.2 h | 4.7k |
| Jun 22, 2017 | Tropical Storm Cindy | 2,095 | 9% | 7.5 h | 4.5 h | 4.3k |
| Apr 29, 2017 | No storm report | 2,672 | 12% | 3.2 h | 2.0 h | 4.2k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 1,543 | 7% | 3.8 h | 1.8 h | 4.1k |
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 Evangeline from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 58%
- No storm on record 19%
- Tornadoes 9.7%
- Ice storm 6.5%
- Thunderstorms 5.2%
- Heat 0.6%
- Flooding 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Evangeline
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cleco Power LLC | Investor Owned | 212 | 146 | 2.26 | 14.3 | 253k |
| Southwest Louisiana E M C | Cooperative | 232 | 172 | 2.67 | 11.6 | 110k |
| Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 712 | 461 | 6.10 | 13.1 | 40k |
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
- Allen 41 h
- Jefferson Davis 37 h
- Acadia 20 h
- Avoyelles 16 h
- Rapides 13 h
- St. Landry 13 h
- Evangeline (this county) 9.8 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 22,432 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 →