Power outage history
Rapides Parish Louisiana
13hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
53rd most of 63 in Louisiana 2.0× 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 Rapides'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 2.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Rapides, 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 | 42,112 | 38% | 16.3 d | 9.4 d | 6.0M |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 26,226 | 24% | 4.1 d | 2.5 d | 1.0M |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Ice storm | 18,098 | 16% | 3.6 d | 3.3 d | 742k |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Tornadoes | 9,027 | 8% | 2.2 d | 2.2 d | 240k |
| Nov 1, 2018 | Tornadoes | 7,554 | 7% | 40 h | 33 h | 165k |
| May 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 8,672 | 8% | 45 h | 46 h | 136k |
| Aug 19, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 14,595 | 13% | 17 h | 15 h | 122k |
| Jun 20, 2019 | Tornadoes | 11,681 | 11% | 31 h | 32 h | 103k |
| May 16, 2024 | No storm report | 5,512 | 5% | 38 h | 2.1 d | 97k |
| Apr 2, 2017 | Tornadoes | 7,236 | 7% | 22 h | 6.0 h | 93k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,977 | 7% | 22 h | 21 h | 76k |
| May 26, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 10,697 | 10% | 12 h | 9.5 h | 74k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | No storm report | 6,180 | 6% | 23 h | 25 h | 68k |
| Jul 13, 2019 | Hurricane Barry | 4,439 | 4% | 23 h | – | 58k |
| Apr 22, 2020 | Tornadoes | 5,676 | 5% | 18 h | 22 h | 51k |
| May 28, 2017 | Thunderstorms | 4,578 | 4% | 14 h | – | 47k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | No storm report | 5,465 | 5% | 13 h | 12 h | 38k |
| Apr 30, 2017 | Flooding | 5,638 | 5% | 8.8 h | 6.0 h | 37k |
| Apr 29, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 3,779 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 25k |
| Aug 19, 2019 | No storm report | 2,888 | 3% | 13 h | – | 24k |
| Aug 27, 2023 | Wildfire | 4,857 | 4% | 9.8 h | – | 22k |
| Jan 11, 2020 | No storm report | 3,088 | 3% | 9.5 h | – | 19k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 8,400 | 8% | 6.8 h | 4.0 h | 17k |
| Oct 30, 2017 | No storm report | 1,225 | 1% | 14 h | – | 17k |
| Dec 26, 2024 | Tornadoes | 2,843 | 3% | 7.8 h | – | 16k |
| Apr 25, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 3,229 | 3% | 8.0 h | – | 16k |
| Mar 29, 2017 | No storm report | 4,970 | 5% | 8.0 h | – | 15k |
| Oct 31, 2015 | Tornadoes | 2,980 | 3% | 6.2 h | – | 13k |
| Oct 26, 2015 | No storm report | 1,703 | 2% | 9.2 h | – | 13k |
| May 27, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 1,750 | 2% | 11 h | – | 12k |
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 Rapides from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 76%
- Ice storm 7.9%
- Tornadoes 6.3%
- Thunderstorms 5.6%
- No storm on record 4.2%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Rapides
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 |
| Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | 712 | 461 | 6.10 | 13.1 | 40k |
| City of Alexandria | Municipal | – | – | – | 11.1 | 19k |
| Concordia Electric Coop, Inc | Cooperative | – | – | – | 13.2 | 12k |
| Town of Boyce | LA | – | – | – | – | 4.5k |
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
- Grant 35 h
- Vernon 30 h
- LaSalle 26 h
- Natchitoches 22 h
- Avoyelles 16 h
- Rapides (this county) 13 h
- Evangeline 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 110,551 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 →