Power Outages in Lafayette Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Lafayette Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 5.8 hours.
Lafayette Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Lafayette Parish's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Lafayette Parish right now.
Lafayette Parish has been under 5 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Warning on July 14, 2026.
- Flood Warning ×4
- Flash Flood Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Lafayette Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Lafayetteno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Lafayette Parish went about 5.8 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 50,670 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 50,670 customers out) · decade average 3.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 410 | 2,066 | 0.4 |
| 2016 | 888 | 12,437 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 875 | 2,094 | 0.7 |
| 2018 | 793 | 12,638 | 0.9 |
| 2019 | 829 | 16,277 | 2.2 |
| 2020 | 850 | 50,670 | 21.7 |
| 2021 | 998 | 5,395 | 1.3 |
| 2022 | 1,035 | 4,646 | 1.2 |
| 2023 | 841 | 3,303 | 1.3 |
| 2024 | 950 | 26,337 | 6.5 |
| 2025 | 1,178 | 13,014 | 5.8 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 3.9 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Lafayette Parish: FAQ
- How often does Lafayette Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Lafayette Parish, LA logged 1,178 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 5.8 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Lafayette Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 50,670 customers without power, beginning October 9, 2020 and lasting about 8d 6h.
- Is there a power outage in Lafayette Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Lafayette Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Lafayette. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Lafayette Parish level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Lafayette Parish.
70501, 70503, 70506, 70507, 70508, 70518, 70520, 70529, 70558, 70583, 70592
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22055 and /api/v1/counties/22055/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).