Power Outages in Plaquemines Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Plaquemines Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.4 hours.
Plaquemines Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Plaquemines 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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Plaquemines Parish has been under 7 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Special Weather Statement ×3
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Plaquemines Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Plaquemines Parish went about 8.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 12,572 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 12,572 customers out) · decade average 34.0 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 362 | 5,588 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 377 | 5,444 | 6.7 |
| 2017 | 299 | 5,584 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 371 | 3,542 | 6.7 |
| 2019 | 319 | 3,240 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 320 | 12,430 | 87.9 |
| 2021 | 420 | 12,572 | 226.3 |
| 2022 | 569 | 2,201 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 504 | 2,545 | 3.6 |
| 2024 | 393 | 4,437 | 12.1 |
| 2025 | 580 | 6,535 | 8.4 |
Relatively High hurricanes exposure · 34.0 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively moderate — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Plaquemines Parish: FAQ
- How often does Plaquemines Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Plaquemines Parish, LA logged 580 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Plaquemines Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 12,572 customers without power, beginning August 29, 2021 and lasting about 45d 16h.
- Is there a power outage in Plaquemines Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Plaquemines Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Plaquemines Parish.
70037, 70038, 70040, 70041, 70050, 70082, 70083, 70091
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22075 and /api/v1/counties/22075/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).