– 0% of Catahoula out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

Catahoula Parish Louisiana

14hours

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

2.2× the national median

Worst outage on record Apr 18, 2019 2% of customers out · lasted 61.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 14h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% – Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 61.0days Mar 1, 2019, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 94% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2019 33 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 3,902 ORNL customer model · 4 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 Catahoula'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

2019 was the worst well-recorded year, at 33 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Catahoula, hours without power per customer

CatahoulaUS median countyLouisiana average
0 10 20 30 40 ’15 10 ’16 ’17 21 ’18 33 ’19 ’20 1.7 ’21 ’22 ’23 ’24 2.2 ’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
Mar 1, 2019 Thunderstorms 70 2% 61.0 d – 78k
Mar 5, 2018 Thunderstorms 63 2% 56.6 d – 72k
Mar 14, 2016 Thunderstorms 59 2% 36.2 d – 39k
Jan 12, 2019 Thunderstorms 55 1% 30.2 d – 38k
Jan 7, 2019 No storm report 53 1% 4.7 d – 5.9k
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 92 2% 2.8 d – 4.2k
Mar 3, 2018 No storm report 54 1% 2.1 d – 2.7k
Aug 30, 2020 No storm report 52 1% 33 h – 1.7k
Apr 22, 2020 Tornadoes 63 2% 10 h – 622
Feb 20, 2021 No storm report 63 2% 10 h – 619
Dec 23, 2017 No storm report 134 3% 6.8 h – 548
Nov 1, 2018 Tornadoes 75 2% 6.0 h – 438

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

  • Thunderstorms 91%
  • No storm on record 6.3%
  • Tropical storm 2.0%
  • Tornadoes 0.5%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Catahoula

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
City of Jonesville LA – – – – 19k
Concordia Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 13.2 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 3,902 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 →