Power Outages in Vernon Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Vernon Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 11.0 hours.
Vernon Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Vernon 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 Vernon Parish right now.
Vernon Parish has been under 1 National Weather Service alert recently — most recently a Special Weather Statement on July 17, 2026.
- Special Weather Statement ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Vernon Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Vernon Parish went about 11.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 24,749 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 24,749 customers out) · decade average 24.2 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 969 | 12,200 | 10.5 |
| 2016 | 835 | 3,323 | 4.5 |
| 2017 | 798 | 3,214 | 6.9 |
| 2018 | 877 | 2,232 | 2.4 |
| 2019 | 880 | 5,146 | 4.2 |
| 2020 | 756 | 24,749 | 174.1 |
| 2021 | 842 | 5,691 | 9.1 |
| 2022 | 883 | 6,053 | 9.1 |
| 2023 | 745 | 12,130 | 12.7 |
| 2024 | 855 | 11,423 | 21.3 |
| 2025 | 894 | 10,441 | 11.0 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 24.2 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 Vernon Parish: FAQ
- How often does Vernon Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Vernon Parish, LA logged 894 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 11.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Vernon Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 24,749 customers without power, beginning August 26, 2020 and lasting about 32d 10h.
- Is there a power outage in Vernon Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Vernon Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Vernon Parish.
70639, 70656, 70659, 71403, 71438, 71439, 71446, 71459, 71461, 71474, 71475
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22115 and /api/v1/counties/22115/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).