Power Outages in Washington Parish, LA
No live outage feed is available for Washington Parish, LA yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 8.3 hours.
Washington Parish, LA is served by local tracked utilities.
Washington 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 Washington Parish right now.
Washington Parish has been under 139 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Warning on August 27, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×61
- Extreme Heat Warning ×23
- Special Weather Statement ×22
- Tropical Cyclone Local Statement ×15
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×7
- Extreme Heat Watch ×7
Hardest-hit cities in Washington Parish
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Washington Parish went about 8.3 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 19,709 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 19,709 customers out) · decade average 18.8 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 952 | 6,737 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 1,006 | 5,174 | 6.9 |
| 2017 | 948 | 5,109 | 7.8 |
| 2018 | 996 | 8,053 | 7.1 |
| 2019 | 967 | 9,041 | 13.5 |
| 2020 | 1,006 | 8,714 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 765 | 19,709 | 116.8 |
| 2022 | 1,137 | 5,262 | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 1,041 | 5,882 | 9.2 |
| 2024 | 965 | 7,405 | 15.9 |
| 2025 | 1,058 | 5,522 | 8.3 |
Relatively High hurricanes exposure · 18.8 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability very high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Washington Parish: FAQ
- How often does Washington Parish, LA lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Washington Parish, LA logged 1,058 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 8.3 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Washington Parish, LA?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 19,709 customers without power, beginning August 29, 2021 and lasting about 14d 11h.
- Is there a power outage in Washington Parish, LA right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Washington Parish, LA. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Washington Parish.
70426, 70427, 70438, 70450
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/22117 and /api/v1/counties/22117/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Louisiana customers).