Power Outages in St. James Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for St. James Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 4.3 hours.
St. James Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
St. James 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.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
St. James Parish has been under 10 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 19, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×6
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Flood Advisory ×1
Hardest-hit cities in St. James Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in St. James Parish went about 4.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 9,931 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 9,931 customers out) · decade average 33.3 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 249 | 2,233 | 5.5 |
| 2016 | 256 | 3,744 | 13.4 |
| 2017 | 227 | 2,921 | 7.5 |
| 2018 | 451 | 3,133 | 6.6 |
| 2019 | 384 | 2,350 | 6.6 |
| 2020 | 435 | 2,012 | 9.4 |
| 2021 | 411 | 9,931 | 269.6 |
| 2022 | 573 | 3,196 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 470 | 3,295 | 10.9 |
| 2024 | 358 | 4,800 | 24.5 |
| 2025 | 556 | 2,643 | 4.3 |
Relatively High hurricanes exposure · 33.3 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 St. James Parish: FAQ
- How often does St. James Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, St. James Parish, LA logged 556 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 4.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in St. James Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 9,931 customers without power, beginning August 29, 2021 and lasting about 49d 2h.
- Is there a power outage in St. James Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for St. James Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within St. James Parish.
70052, 70071, 70086, 70090, 70723, 70743, 70763
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22093 and /api/v1/counties/22093/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).