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

Power outage history

Lincoln Parish Louisiana

11hours

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

57th most of 63 in Louisiana 1.6× the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Laura · Aug 28, 2020 46% of customers out · 90% back in 4.9 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 11h / yr State average 27 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 1.5 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 10hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 8.3days Hurricane Laura, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 80% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2020 2.1 days without power, average customer
Electricity customers 26,566 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 Lincoln'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 2.1 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Lincoln, hours without power per customer

LincolnUS median countyLouisiana average
0 20 40 60 0.8 ’15 2.1 ’16 1.7 ’17 3.9 ’18 3.9 ’19 50 ’20 5.4 ’21 3.1 ’22 9.4 ’23 5.9 ’24 4.0 ’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
Aug 27, 2020 Hurricane Laura 12,154 46% 8.3 d 4.9 d 1.2M
Jul 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 7,783 29% 46 h 22 h 100k
Apr 9, 2024 No storm report 3,661 14% 46 h 38 h 61k
Apr 14, 2018 Tornadoes 3,496 13% 40 h 36 h 48k
Feb 17, 2021 Winter storm 1,713 6% 28 h 17 h 33k
Jun 18, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,737 10% 29 h 7.2 h 32k
Jan 11, 2020 No storm report 1,460 6% 36 h 25 h 30k
Apr 25, 2019 Tornadoes 3,259 12% 16 h 11 h 29k
Jan 10, 2021 Winter storm 3,319 12% 19 h 6.0 h 27k
Oct 10, 2020 Hurricane Delta 3,411 13% 15 h 7.0 h 26k
Jun 16, 2023 Thunderstorms 2,956 11% 14 h 8.2 h 23k
Oct 13, 2018 No storm report 1,696 6% 11 h 12 h 18k

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 +20h

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

  • Tropical storm 60%
  • No storm on record 20%
  • Thunderstorms 12%
  • Tornadoes 4.6%
  • Winter storm 3.1%
  • Heat 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Lincoln

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
Claiborne Electric Coop, Inc Cooperative – – – 13.3 21k
City of Ruston Municipal 133 – 1.61 5.6 10k

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 26,566 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 →