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

Power outage history

Avoyelles Parish Louisiana

16hours

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

46th most of 63 in Louisiana 2.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Feb 18, 2021 67% of customers out · 90% back in 2.4 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 16h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 2.1 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 3hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.8days Hurricane Laura, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 76% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 45 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 23,447 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 Avoyelles'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 45 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Avoyelles, hours without power per customer

AvoyellesUS median countyLouisiana average
0 20 40 60 4.2 ’15 4.7 ’16 14 ’17 8.4 ’18 14 ’19 45 ’20 33 ’21 4.2 ’22 6.0 ’23 8.7 ’24 6.8 ’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 Ice storm 15,648 67% 4.9 d 2.4 d 663k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 18,052 77% 5.8 d 2.9 d 573k
Oct 9, 2020 Hurricane Delta 14,510 62% 3.1 d 36 h 307k
Jan 2, 2017 Tornadoes 12,762 54% 47 h 25 h 165k
Jul 13, 2019 Hurricane Barry 6,368 27% 2.2 d 12 h 99k
May 16, 2024 No storm report 4,074 17% 23 h 16 h 39k
Dec 8, 2017 Winter storm 7,327 31% 16 h 3.0 h 37k
Apr 22, 2020 Tornadoes 1,788 8% 38 h 35 h 25k
Dec 28, 2024 No storm report 5,149 22% 24 h 13 h 25k
Apr 30, 2017 Tornadoes 5,292 23% 17 h 7.5 h 25k
Jul 5, 2015 Thunderstorms 4,534 19% 14 h 2.8 h 20k
May 3, 2017 Thunderstorms 2,703 12% 19 h 17 h 19k

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 +6h 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 Avoyelles from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 42%
  • Ice storm 29%
  • No storm on record 24%
  • Tornadoes 2.6%
  • Thunderstorms 2.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Avoyelles

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
Southwest Louisiana E M C Cooperative 232 172 2.67 11.6 110k

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 23,447 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 →