Power Out Map
– 0% of Red River out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

Red River Parish Louisiana

38hours

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

22nd most of 63 in Louisiana 5.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Laura · Aug 27, 2020 69% of customers out · 90% back in 2.6 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 38h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 9.9 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 4hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 16.8days Jan 22, 2017, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 71% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 3.0 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 5,806 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 Red River's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.0 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Red River, hours without power per customer

Red RiverUS median countyLouisiana average
0 20 40 60 80 100 20 ’15 14 ’16 63 ’17 24 ’18 24 ’19 73 ’20 67 ’21 23 ’22 41 ’23 36 ’24 18 ’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 26, 2020 Hurricane Laura 3,986 69% 7.0 d 2.6 d 297k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 3,507 60% 4.0 d 3.0 d 203k
May 28, 2017 Thunderstorms 4,372 75% 4.3 d 3.2 d 188k
Jun 16, 2023 Heat 2,117 36% 5.9 d 4.4 d 125k
Jun 1, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,063 36% 4.9 d 6.5 h 95k
Jan 10, 2021 Winter storm 2,539 44% 2.8 d 35 h 71k
Jan 22, 2017 No storm report 270 5% 16.8 d – 54k
Apr 6, 2018 Tornadoes 2,660 46% 2.0 d 41 h 50k
Dec 22, 2022 Winter storm 1,359 23% 2.1 d 22 h 49k
May 8, 2019 No storm report 1,734 30% 2.7 d 2.1 d 43k
Oct 25, 2015 No storm report 1,801 31% 38 h 13 h 41k
Apr 9, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,076 36% 43 h 22 h 40k

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 +22h 90% by +50h

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

  • No storm on record 29%
  • Winter storm 20%
  • Tropical storm 19%
  • Thunderstorms 16%
  • Heat 11%
  • Tornadoes 4.2%
  • Flooding 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Red River

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

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 5,806 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 →