– 0% of East Baton Rouge out 0 customers out in Louisiana

Power outage history

East Baton Rouge Parish Louisiana

18hours

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

42nd most of 63 in Louisiana 2.8× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Ida · Aug 30, 2021 77% of customers out · 90% back in 6.3 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 18h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 1.4 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 34hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 17.9days Hurricane Ida, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 87% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2021 3.8 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 214,590 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 East Baton Rouge'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 3.8 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

East Baton Rouge, hours without power per customer

East Baton RougeUS 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 29, 2021	Hurricane Ida	165,549	77%	17.9 d	6.3 d	16M
Feb 15, 2021	No storm report	55,164	26%	3.9 d	2.0 d	2.1M
Oct 9, 2020	Hurricane Delta	73,461	34%	3.7 d	46 h	2.0M
Aug 13, 2016	Flooding	24,137	11%	5.8 d	3.4 d	1.7M
Apr 27, 2015	Thunderstorms	37,904	18%	3.4 d	2.8 d	1.1M
Jul 13, 2019	Hurricane Barry	28,334	13%	2.7 d	2.2 d	576k
May 13, 2024	Thunderstorms	35,145	16%	45 h	36 h	550k
Sep 11, 2024	Hurricane Francine	23,530	11%	38 h	32 h	414k
May 19, 2016	Thunderstorms	25,849	12%	36 h	26 h	316k
Jun 25, 2020	Thunderstorms	30,245	14%	26 h	22 h	227k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	18,926	9%	32 h	28 h	227k
May 17, 2021	Flooding	21,567	10%	22 h	20 h	217k
Jul 31, 2023	Thunderstorms	23,700	11%	27 h	26 h	204k
Jun 17, 2023	Thunderstorms	23,607	11%	27 h	26 h	180k
Apr 10, 2024	Thunderstorms	29,914	14%	16 h	13 h	178k
Apr 10, 2021	Thunderstorms	20,373	9%	24 h	25 h	166k
Apr 14, 2018	Tornadoes	16,890	8%	20 h	24 h	123k
May 16, 2024	Thunderstorms	10,705	5%	16 h	18 h	86k
Oct 22, 2017	Thunderstorms	17,003	8%	10 h	9.2 h	76k
Jun 13, 2021	No storm report	6,059	3%	12 h	11 h	69k
Dec 28, 2024	Tornadoes	9,223	4%	15 h	19 h	65k
Jul 30, 2025	Flooding	16,103	8%	13 h	19 h	62k
Aug 27, 2020	Hurricane Laura	11,636	5%	12 h	9.0 h	61k
Jun 23, 2015	Thunderstorms	11,444	5%	10 h	19 h	59k
Aug 3, 2024	Thunderstorms	9,569	4%	11 h	19 h	55k
May 6, 2023	Thunderstorms	17,573	8%	6.2 h	10 h	54k
Jun 12, 2025	Thunderstorms	6,776	3%	11 h	12 h	51k
Mar 30, 2022	No storm report	8,017	4%	10 h	10 h	48k
Apr 13, 2019	Windstorm	6,714	3%	14 h	25 h	48k
Apr 16, 2021	No storm report	13,260	6%	8.0 h	8.2 h	42k

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

Tropical storm 76%
No storm on record 14%
Thunderstorms 8.1%
Flooding 1.5%
Tornadoes 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving East Baton Rouge

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
Dixie Electric Membership Corp	Cooperative	321	275	4.62	13.5	111k

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

St. Helena 83 h
East Feliciana 45 h
Livingston 39 h
Ascension 34 h
Iberville 19 h
East Baton Rouge (this county) 18 h
West Baton Rouge 13 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 214,590 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 →