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Power outage history

Beauregard Parish Louisiana

56hours

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

5th most of 63 in Louisiana 8.5× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Laura · Aug 28, 2020 73% of customers out · 90% back in 14.1 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 56h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 7.3 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 Hurricane Laura, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 79% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2020 14.7 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 26,155 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 Beauregard'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

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14.7 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Beauregard, hours without power per customer

BeauregardUS median countyLouisiana average

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	18,972	73%	16.8 d	14.1 d	6.1M
Oct 9, 2020	Hurricane Delta	19,201	73%	7.2 d	29 h	1.7M
Sep 13, 2020	No storm report	9,884	38%	13.1 d	43 h	1.2M
May 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	8,350	32%	3.0 d	40 h	205k
Feb 17, 2021	Ice storm	15,820	60%	2.3 d	9.2 h	167k
May 30, 2024	Thunderstorms	7,937	30%	37 h	16 h	63k
Aug 24, 2023	Wildfire	3,375	13%	3.0 d	2.9 d	61k
Oct 31, 2018	Tornadoes	4,581	18%	37 h	18 h	56k
Apr 27, 2015	Thunderstorms	7,771	30%	42 h	16 h	55k
Apr 10, 2024	Thunderstorms	5,526	21%	40 h	25 h	54k
Jan 2, 2017	Tornadoes	7,842	30%	30 h	14 h	52k
Jan 24, 2023	Tornadoes	4,245	16%	33 h	25 h	50k
Dec 28, 2024	Tornadoes	5,662	22%	21 h	15 h	47k
May 12, 2024	Thunderstorms	4,120	16%	47 h	13 h	45k
Apr 29, 2020	No storm report	7,157	27%	17 h	9.0 h	44k
May 3, 2017	Thunderstorms	5,370	21%	19 h	7.5 h	35k
Dec 16, 2023	No storm report	6,720	26%	5.0 h	3.8 h	29k
Jul 10, 2022	No storm report	7,157	27%	17 h	7.8 h	25k
Sep 8, 2023	Thunderstorms	5,223	20%	17 h	11 h	25k
Apr 24, 2015	Thunderstorms	3,262	12%	19 h	13 h	24k
Mar 30, 2022	No storm report	6,399	24%	8.2 h	3.5 h	24k
Jan 2, 2023	No storm report	3,456	13%	6.8 h	30 min	23k
Jan 8, 2024	Thunderstorms	2,088	8%	24 h	9.0 h	22k
May 5, 2020	Thunderstorms	2,923	11%	15 h	13 h	21k
Dec 18, 2021	Thunderstorms	3,569	14%	13 h	7.0 h	20k
May 27, 2016	Thunderstorms	4,455	17%	12 h	11 h	19k
Apr 30, 2017	No storm report	2,931	11%	12 h	6.2 h	19k
Aug 31, 2017	Hurricane Harvey	2,465	9%	9.0 h	8.2 h	16k
Jul 14, 2022	No storm report	2,964	11%	11 h	9.5 h	15k
Aug 31, 2024	No storm report	3,450	13%	5.0 h	4.8 h	14k

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

Tropical storm 71%
No storm on record 21%
Thunderstorms 4.6%
Tornadoes 1.6%
Ice storm 1.5%
Wildfire 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Beauregard

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
Beauregard Electric Coop, Inc	Cooperative	712	461	6.10	13.1	40k

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

Beauregard (this county) 56 h
Calcasieu 48 h
Allen 41 h
Jefferson Davis 37 h
Vernon 30 h
Newton, TX 7.0 h

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 26,155 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 →