Power Out Map
– 0% of West Carroll out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

West Carroll Parish Louisiana

4.8hours

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

63rd most of 63 in Louisiana 28% below the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 19, 2021 19% of customers out · 90% back in 2.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.8h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 4.5 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 5.3days Feb 17, 2021, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 61% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2021 15 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 4,278 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 West Carroll'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 15 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

West Carroll, hours without power per customer

West CarrollUS median countyLouisiana average
0 10 20 30 40 3.9 ’15 3.3 ’16 1.9 ’17 2.0 ’18 4.2 ’19 4.0 ’20 15 ’21 2.8 ’22 3.1 ’23 5.4 ’24 1.9 ’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 800 19% 5.3 d 2.9 d 47k
Apr 13, 2019 Thunderstorms 1,393 33% 35 h 7.2 h 9.5k
May 23, 2024 No storm report 1,701 40% 17 h 14 h 7.9k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 1,062 25% 16 h 14 h 7.5k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 687 16% 32 h 28 h 6.3k
Jan 10, 2021 Winter storm 486 11% 19 h 3.5 h 5.4k
Jul 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 218 5% 25 h 23 h 4.4k
Jun 7, 2016 No storm report 1,411 33% 3.0 h 12 h 4.2k
Apr 25, 2015 Thunderstorms 880 21% 5.2 h 4.0 h 3.5k
Sep 7, 2015 No storm report 1,099 26% 4.0 h 30 min 3.4k
Oct 10, 2020 Hurricane Delta 320 7% 15 h 7.2 h 2.9k
Sep 18, 2022 No storm report 1,003 23% 3.2 h 3.0 h 2.8k

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 +8h

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

  • No storm on record 39%
  • Winter storm 37%
  • Thunderstorms 15%
  • Tropical storm 7.2%
  • Tornadoes 1.2%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving West Carroll

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+

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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 4,278 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 →