Power Outages in Rapides Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Rapides Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.1 hours.
Rapides Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Rapides 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 Rapides Parish right now.
Rapides Parish has been under 7 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Flood Warning on July 14, 2026.
- Flood Warning ×5
- Flash Flood Warning ×1
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Rapides Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Alexandriano active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Rapides Parish went about 3.1 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 42,112 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 42,112 customers out) · decade average 10.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 999 | 6,094 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 788 | 3,913 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 713 | 7,236 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 577 | 7,554 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 477 | 11,681 | 8.4 |
| 2020 | 354 | 42,112 | 68.0 |
| 2021 | 335 | 18,098 | 8.9 |
| 2022 | 843 | 3,241 | 2.1 |
| 2023 | 930 | 8,400 | 2.5 |
| 2024 | 947 | 14,595 | 7.0 |
| 2025 | 882 | 10,697 | 3.1 |
Relatively High ice storms exposure · 10.4 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 Rapides Parish: FAQ
- How often does Rapides Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Rapides Parish, LA logged 882 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.1 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Rapides Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 42,112 customers without power, beginning August 26, 2020 and lasting about 31d 16h.
- Is there a power outage in Rapides Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Rapides Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Alexandria. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Rapides Parish level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Rapides Parish.
71301, 71302, 71303, 71325, 71328, 71330, 71346, 71359, 71360, 71405, 71409, 71424, 71427, 71430, 71433, 71447, 71466, 71472, 71485
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22079 and /api/v1/counties/22079/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).