Power Outages in Orleans Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Orleans Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 4.4 hours.
Orleans Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Orleans 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.
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Orleans Parish has been under 12 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Flash Flood Warning ×5
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Special Weather Statement ×3
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Orleans Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- New Orleansno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Orleans Parish went about 4.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 181,040 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 181,040 customers out) · decade average 22.7 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 931 | 31,162 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 895 | 26,343 | 4.9 |
| 2017 | 743 | 23,634 | 6.9 |
| 2018 | 817 | 23,059 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 800 | 33,505 | 5.8 |
| 2020 | 674 | 160,779 | 43.9 |
| 2021 | 550 | 181,040 | 154.9 |
| 2022 | 430 | 14,785 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 595 | 23,205 | 4.0 |
| 2024 | 455 | 53,071 | 10.8 |
| 2025 | 417 | 52,270 | 4.4 |
Very High hurricanes exposure · 22.7 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Orleans Parish: FAQ
- How often does Orleans Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Orleans Parish, LA logged 417 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 4.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Orleans Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 181,040 customers without power, beginning August 29, 2021 and lasting about 29d 1h.
- Is there a power outage in Orleans Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Orleans Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
New Orleans. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Orleans Parish level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Orleans Parish.
70112, 70113, 70114, 70115, 70116, 70117, 70118, 70119, 70122, 70124, 70125, 70126, 70127, 70128, 70129, 70130, 70131, 70139, 70148, 70163
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22071 and /api/v1/counties/22071/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).