Power Out Map
– 0% of Franklin out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

Franklin Parish Louisiana

8.2hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

61st most of 63 in Louisiana 1.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 18, 2021 74% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 8.2h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 4.8days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 77% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 34 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,528 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

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 Franklin's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 34 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Franklin, hours without power per customer

FranklinUS median countyLouisiana average
0 10 20 30 40 1.8 ’15 1.9 ’16 12 ’17 2.1 ’18 3.5 ’19 13 ’20 34 ’21 3.4 ’22 2.5 ’23 3.4 ’24 4.1 ’25 LA 27 US 6.6

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
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 6,328 74% 4.8 d 2.9 d 265k
May 28, 2017 Thunderstorms 5,278 62% 2.6 d 42 h 70k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 3,896 46% 2.4 d 30 h 57k
Mar 10, 2020 No storm report 5,295 62% 3.5 h 3.2 h 17k
Apr 2, 2017 Tornadoes 884 10% 27 h 25 h 8.6k
Mar 30, 2022 Tornadoes 1,111 13% 26 h 25 h 7.2k
Oct 9, 2020 Hurricane Delta 473 6% 34 h 20 h 6.8k
Apr 22, 2020 Thunderstorms 1,445 17% 15 h 6.5 h 6.6k
Jun 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 793 9% 20 h 19 h 5.3k
Jul 25, 2015 No storm report 718 8% 12 h 5.2 h 5.3k
Feb 15, 2025 Thunderstorms 1,227 14% 20 h 16 h 4.9k
Mar 23, 2019 No storm report 2,088 24% 3.2 h 1.2 h 4.3k

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.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +2h 90% by +20h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Franklin from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Winter storm 55%
  • No storm on record 23%
  • Tropical storm 13%
  • Thunderstorms 7.4%
  • Tornadoes 1.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Franklin

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
Concordia Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 13.2 12k
Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc. Cooperative 265 229 2.23 11.2 12k

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

Across Louisiana

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Louisiana counties →

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 8,528 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 →