Power outage history
Vernon Parish Louisiana
30hours
without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025
29th most of 63 in Louisiana 4.6× the national median
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 Vernon's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.
Year by year
Hours in the dark, per customer
2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 7.3 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.
Vernon, hours without power per customer
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 | 24,749 | 63% | 16.4 d | 10.4 d | 4.9M |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Hurricane Delta | 23,510 | 60% | 6.0 d | 3.2 d | 1.6M |
| May 30, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 11,423 | 29% | 45 h | 36 h | 168k |
| May 16, 2024 | Thunderstorms | 7,680 | 20% | 2.7 d | 44 h | 142k |
| Sep 13, 2020 | No storm report | 3,299 | 8% | 4.1 d | 24 h | 131k |
| Apr 27, 2015 | Thunderstorms | 12,200 | 31% | 40 h | 28 h | 112k |
| Sep 8, 2023 | Thunderstorms | 12,130 | 31% | 20 h | 9.0 h | 69k |
| Mar 4, 2025 | Thunderstorms | 6,962 | 18% | 29 h | 26 h | 62k |
| Apr 9, 2024 | Flooding | 2,920 | 7% | 2.0 d | 20 h | 55k |
| Aug 30, 2017 | Hurricane Harvey | 1,464 | 4% | 3.8 d | – | 53k |
| May 3, 2017 | Flooding | 3,214 | 8% | 28 h | 27 h | 50k |
| Oct 16, 2024 | No storm report | 6,391 | 16% | 7.0 h | 3.0 h | 44k |
| Apr 5, 2023 | No storm report | 8,174 | 21% | 6.8 h | 6.5 h | 43k |
| Jan 8, 2022 | No storm report | 3,022 | 8% | 28 h | 22 h | 42k |
| Dec 28, 2024 | Tornadoes | 3,708 | 9% | 27 h | 22 h | 41k |
| Apr 23, 2021 | No storm report | 5,691 | 15% | 20 h | 19 h | 41k |
| Feb 17, 2021 | Ice storm | 2,295 | 6% | 31 h | 30 h | 40k |
| May 26, 2025 | No storm report | 10,441 | 27% | 7.8 h | 6.5 h | 37k |
| Sep 29, 2025 | No storm report | 8,470 | 22% | 4.8 h | 3.2 h | 36k |
| Aug 24, 2023 | Heat | 4,415 | 11% | 17 h | 16 h | 32k |
| Apr 29, 2020 | Thunderstorms | 3,192 | 8% | 33 h | 16 h | 31k |
| Apr 6, 2023 | No storm report | 7,388 | 19% | 6.0 h | 2.0 h | 31k |
| Apr 13, 2019 | Thunderstorms | 5,146 | 13% | 23 h | 15 h | 30k |
| May 25, 2015 | No storm report | 3,154 | 8% | 16 h | 16 h | 27k |
| Nov 28, 2024 | No storm report | 8,150 | 21% | 7.2 h | 12 min | 26k |
| Jan 8, 2024 | No storm report | 3,570 | 9% | 27 h | 22 h | 26k |
| Aug 27, 2023 | Wildfire | 2,087 | 5% | 18 h | 10 h | 24k |
| Dec 27, 2015 | No storm report | 2,888 | 7% | 11 h | 8.2 h | 24k |
| Jun 10, 2023 | No storm report | 2,329 | 6% | 24 h | 23 h | 23k |
| Mar 30, 2022 | Tornadoes | 4,180 | 11% | 8.8 h | 7.0 h | 23k |
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 Vernon from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.
- Tropical storm 74%
- No storm on record 16%
- Thunderstorms 6.8%
- Tornadoes 1.4%
- Flooding 0.7%
- Heat 0.6%
Who keeps the lights on
Utilities serving Vernon
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 |
| Southwestern Electric Power Co | Investor Owned | 451 | 332 | 3.02 | 13.8 | 207k |
| 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 56 h
- Sabine 47 h
- Allen 41 h
- Vernon (this county) 30 h
- Natchitoches 22 h
- Rapides 13 h
- Newton, TX 7.0 h
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 39,210 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 →