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

Power outage history

Richland Parish Louisiana

12hours

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

56th most of 63 in Louisiana 1.9× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 18, 2021 63% of customers out · 90% back in 3.1 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 12h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 5.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 2hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.0days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 73% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 35 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 8,935 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 Richland'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 35 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Richland, hours without power per customer

RichlandUS median countyLouisiana average
0 10 20 30 40 4.7 ’15 7.3 ’16 4.0 ’17 5.7 ’18 6.1 ’19 28 ’20 35 ’21 7.0 ’22 5.7 ’23 6.3 ’24 5.2 ’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 5,585 63% 5.0 d 3.1 d 261k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 4,533 51% 3.6 d 3.1 d 171k
Oct 10, 2020 Hurricane Delta 2,632 29% 2.4 d 27 h 34k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,203 36% 17 h 8.8 h 15k
Mar 30, 2022 Tornadoes 1,322 15% 11 h 11 h 9.7k
Jun 3, 2024 Thunderstorms 2,335 26% 24 h 13 h 9.6k
Apr 22, 2015 Thunderstorms 528 6% 36 h 36 h 8.4k
Jun 24, 2015 Thunderstorms 2,086 23% 15 h 13 h 8.1k
Jun 24, 2019 No storm report 1,220 14% 18 h 16 h 8.0k
May 8, 2019 Tornadoes 1,592 18% 8.5 h 3.5 h 6.7k
Jan 2, 2018 No storm report 1,588 18% 8.8 h 2.8 h 6.4k
Oct 29, 2016 No storm report 1,056 12% 6.0 h 3.8 h 6.3k

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 +4h 90% by +16h

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

  • Winter storm 34%
  • Tropical storm 27%
  • No storm on record 27%
  • Thunderstorms 7.9%
  • Tornadoes 3.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Richland

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
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 8,935 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 →