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

Power outage history

Jackson Parish Louisiana

49hours

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

11th most of 63 in Louisiana 7.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Laura · Aug 27, 2020 100% of customers out · 90% back in 32 hours
Hours without power, average customer per year 49h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 12.9 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 9.5days Hurricane Laura, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 72% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 7.2 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,755 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 Jackson'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.2 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Jackson, hours without power per customer

JacksonUS median countyLouisiana average
0 50 100 150 200 10 ’15 9.5 ’16 13 ’17 19 ’18 76 ’19 174 ’20 47 ’21 21 ’22 25 ’23 19 ’24 12 ’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
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 4,755 100% 9.5 d 32 h 682k
May 8, 2019 Tornadoes 4,755 100% 4.1 d 4.0 d 248k
Jan 11, 2021 Winter storm 4,412 93% 42 h 30 h 68k
Oct 10, 2020 Hurricane Delta 3,554 75% 2.0 d 38 h 66k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 2,544 54% 3.8 d 27 h 47k
Jun 16, 2023 Heat 3,315 70% 2.7 d 39 h 42k
Apr 9, 2024 No storm report 2,582 54% 2.5 d 13 h 33k
Jun 24, 2019 No storm report 3,112 65% 36 h 13 h 30k
Apr 12, 2022 No storm report 1,318 28% 46 h 40 h 28k
Mar 30, 2022 Tornadoes 3,727 78% 31 h 24 h 26k
Apr 22, 2020 No storm report 3,593 76% 20 h 11 h 21k
Jun 25, 2021 No storm report 249 5% 3.3 d 3.3 d 19k

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 +6h 90% by +30h

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 Jackson from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 42%
  • No storm on record 28%
  • Tornadoes 16%
  • Winter storm 6.5%
  • Thunderstorms 3.6%
  • Heat 3.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Jackson

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

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 4,755 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 →