– 0% of Natchitoches out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

Natchitoches Parish Louisiana

22hours

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

37th most of 63 in Louisiana 3.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Laura · Aug 30, 2020 40% of customers out · 90% back in 28 hours

Hours without power, average customer per year 22h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.8 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 23hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 11.6days Hurricane Laura, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 88% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2020 3.5 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 32,940 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 Natchitoches'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 3.5 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Natchitoches, hours without power per customer

NatchitochesUS median countyLouisiana average

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	13,109	40%	11.6 d	28 h	2.3M
Feb 17, 2021	Winter storm	6,958	21%	4.4 d	3.0 d	414k
May 28, 2017	Thunderstorms	7,870	24%	4.0 d	3.1 d	387k
Jun 16, 2023	Thunderstorms	7,251	22%	3.5 d	2.7 d	275k
Oct 9, 2020	Hurricane Delta	7,327	22%	3.0 d	2.3 d	200k
Jan 10, 2021	Winter storm	4,947	15%	2.8 d	2.1 d	149k
May 26, 2016	Windstorm	4,586	14%	2.9 d	2.0 d	146k
Jun 10, 2023	Thunderstorms	5,920	18%	2.1 d	40 h	114k
Apr 29, 2017	Thunderstorms	6,842	21%	37 h	23 h	100k
Aug 27, 2023	Heat	4,990	15%	28 h	23 h	90k
May 8, 2019	Tornadoes	4,027	12%	2.2 d	39 h	88k
Jun 24, 2019	Thunderstorms	3,222	10%	41 h	15 h	67k
May 30, 2024	Thunderstorms	2,636	8%	44 h	36 h	59k
Aug 18, 2025	Thunderstorms	3,353	10%	19 h	13 h	55k
Jul 13, 2022	Heat	3,676	11%	20 h	10 h	54k
Apr 9, 2024	Thunderstorms	2,664	8%	42 h	29 h	48k
Apr 29, 2020	Thunderstorms	4,840	15%	17 h	13 h	47k
Apr 6, 2018	Tornadoes	3,723	11%	20 h	9.2 h	46k
Mar 30, 2022	Tornadoes	4,005	12%	29 h	20 h	43k
Aug 19, 2024	Heat	4,160	13%	17 h	14 h	37k
Aug 30, 2017	Hurricane Harvey	1,791	5%	30 h	5.2 h	35k
Mar 4, 2025	Thunderstorms	1,659	5%	28 h	26 h	30k
Mar 12, 2016	Flooding	786	2%	2.8 d	–	26k
May 4, 2021	Thunderstorms	2,832	9%	25 h	24 h	25k
Jul 12, 2019	Hurricane Barry	2,574	8%	12 h	10 h	25k
Jul 8, 2024	Hurricane Beryl	2,115	6%	26 h	23 h	24k
May 19, 2019	Flooding	1,587	5%	17 h	–	24k
Sep 8, 2023	No storm report	2,418	7%	26 h	24 h	23k
Dec 28, 2024	No storm report	1,267	4%	22 h	–	22k
Jun 11, 2025	No storm report	1,724	5%	20 h	20 h	21k

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

Tropical storm 50%
Thunderstorms 17%
No storm on record 12%
Winter storm 12%
Heat 4.7%
Tornadoes 3.8%
Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Natchitoches

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
Cleco Power LLC	Investor Owned	212	146	2.26	14.3	253k
Southwestern Electric Power Co	Investor Owned	451	332	3.02	13.8	207k
City of Natchitoches	Municipal	–	–	–	10.6	7.2k

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

Sabine 47 h
Bienville 44 h
Red River 38 h
Grant 35 h
Winn 31 h
Vernon 30 h
De Soto 24 h
Natchitoches (this county) 22 h
Rapides 13 h

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 32,940 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 →