Power outages in Louisiana, by utility
Across 8 Louisiana utilities that reported to the federal government, the median customer went without power for 4.3 hours in 2025 — that is 1.5× the national median. Louisiana ranks #10 of 41 states for outage time, worst first.
- Median utility
- 4.3 hrs
- typical customer
- Worst utility
- 8.5 hrs
- Washington-St Tammany E C, Inc
- Best utility
- 0.5 hrs
- City of Lafayette - (LA)
- Utilities reporting
- 8
- of 752 nationwide
Every reporting Louisiana utility, worst outage time first
| # | Utility | Outage time/yr | Outages/yr | vs US median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Washington-St Tammany E C, IncCooperative | 8.5 hrs511 min | 5.2 | 2.9× worse |
| 2 | Southwestern Electric Power CoInvestor Owned | 7.5 hrs451 min | 3.0 | 2.5× worse |
| 3 | Dixie Electric Membership Corp - (LA)Cooperative | 5.4 hrs321 min | 4.6 | 1.8× worse |
| 4 | Northeast Louisiana Power Coop Inc.Cooperative | 4.4 hrs265 min | 2.2 | 1.5× worse |
| 5 | Entergy Louisiana LLCInvestor Owned | 4.2 hrs253 min | 1.8 | 1.4× worse |
| 6 | Entergy New Orleans, LLCInvestor Owned | 3.5 hrs209 min | 1.8 | 1.2× worse |
| 7 | City of Ruston - (LA)Municipal | 2.2 hrs133 min | 1.6 | 1.3× better |
| 8 | City of Lafayette - (LA)Municipal | 0.5 hrs30 min | 0.7 | 6.0× better |
Outage time is SAIDI: the average minutes a customer went without power across the year, storms and major events included. Outages/yr is SAIFI. The US median across all reporting utilities is 3 hours (178 minutes).
What these numbers do and do not say
SAIDI counts the minutes an average customer spent without power over the year, including storms and other major events. We rank on the figure that includes them, because excluding storms would describe a year nobody actually lived through.
Utilities report these numbers themselves, and smaller co-ops and municipal systems often serve rural territory where a single line fault affects a large share of customers. A high number is not automatically mismanagement — but it is still the power you did not have.
Only 8 utilities in Louisiana reported, so this ranking covers part of the state rather than all of it. Utilities that filed no reliability data are left out entirely rather than counted as zero.