Power outage history
St. John the Baptist Parish Louisiana
52hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
9th most of 63 in Louisiana 8.0× 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 St. John the Baptist's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2021 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
St. John the Baptist, 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 29, 2021 | Hurricane Ida | 19,726 | 89% | 23.4 d | 11.1 d | 7.1M |
| Sep 11, 2024 | Hurricane Francine | 14,484 | 66% | 4.1 d | 2.4 d | 394k |
| Feb 23, 2016 | Tornadoes | 9,981 | 45% | 3.3 d | 2.2 d | 372k |
| Oct 28, 2020 | Hurricane Zeta | 6,929 | 31% | 26 h | 22 h | 99k |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 4,428 | 20% | 27 h | 17 h | 71k |
| May 16, 2024 | No storm report | 5,807 | 26% | 26 h | 14 h | 65k |
| May 19, 2016 | Thunderstorms | 4,309 | 20% | 48 h | 47 h | 53k |
| Sep 29, 2021 | No storm report | 9,912 | 45% | 15 h | 3.2 h | 43k |
| Oct 26, 2019 | Tropical Storm Olga | 7,226 | 33% | 41 h | 11 h | 42k |
| Sep 21, 2021 | No storm report | 4,377 | 20% | 39 h | 5.8 h | 38k |
| Apr 15, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 5,987 | 27% | 27 h | 6.5 h | 36k |
| Sep 27, 2021 | No storm report | 5,639 | 26% | 29 h | 10 h | 29k |
| Mar 12, 2022 | No storm report | 3,916 | 18% | 14 h | 2.8 h | 25k |
| Jul 12, 2019 | Hurricane Barry | 2,779 | 13% | 23 h | 4.8 h | 23k |
| Mar 22, 2023 | No storm report | 4,288 | 19% | 5.0 h | 5.0 h | 21k |
| Aug 26, 2018 | No storm report | 6,704 | 30% | 6.0 h | 2.0 h | 21k |
| Apr 3, 2023 | No storm report | 6,164 | 28% | 7.2 h | 7.0 h | 20k |
| Oct 28, 2021 | No storm report | 13,794 | 62% | 5.8 h | 1.5 h | 20k |
| Nov 12, 2021 | No storm report | 3,040 | 14% | 6.2 h | 2.2 h | 19k |
| Dec 30, 2022 | Thunderstorms | 3,754 | 17% | 34 h | 3.0 h | 18k |
| Dec 20, 2022 | No storm report | 2,028 | 9% | 6.8 h | 6.5 h | 14k |
| Feb 16, 2015 | No storm report | 4,585 | 21% | 4.8 h | 8.2 h | 14k |
| Jun 20, 2023 | No storm report | 2,992 | 14% | 12 h | 12 min | 13k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Tornadoes | 1,932 | 9% | 7.5 h | 3.0 h | 13k |
| Jan 24, 2023 | No storm report | 4,371 | 20% | 6.2 h | 2.5 h | 12k |
| Dec 28, 2015 | Tornadoes | 1,399 | 6% | 9.5 h | 7.0 h | 12k |
| Nov 19, 2024 | No storm report | 8,289 | 38% | 1.8 h | 1.8 h | 11k |
| Jan 1, 2018 | No storm report | 5,267 | 24% | 3.2 h | 2.5 h | 11k |
| Nov 4, 2020 | No storm report | 1,243 | 6% | 8.8 h | 8.8 h | 11k |
| Sep 7, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 4,263 | 19% | 11 h | 1.8 h | 11k |
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 St. John the Baptist from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 87%
- No storm on record 12%
- Thunderstorms 0.9%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving St. John the Baptist
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
- Lafourche 78 h
- St. John the Baptist (this county) 52 h
- Tangipahoa 52 h
- St. Charles 45 h
- St. James 42 h
- Jefferson 40 h
- Livingston 39 h
- Ascension 34 h
- St. Tammany 18 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 22,092 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 →