When will the power be back in Rapides Parish, LA?

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No significant parish-wide outage reported in Rapides Parish, LA right now.

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Elsewhere in Louisiana: 3,043 customers reported out — statewide status.

Updated 10:31 PM CDT.

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Who serves Rapides Parish?

Parish-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Entergy, CLECO Power ↗ and Beauregard Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Alexandria, Concordia Electric Cooperative and Town of Boyce also serve parts of this parish — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Rapides Parish, LA

Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 239 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 26 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.1 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Rapides Parish, LA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 1,132 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 6 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~4 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: ~42,112 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 14.4 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.

Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), parish-level records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.

Cities we track in Rapides Parish

Alexandria · Pineville

Communities in Rapides Parish include Alexandria, Pineville, Ball, Woodworth, Glenmora, Boyce, Lecompte and Forest Hill. Searches and the live map cover every address in this parish, named here or not.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Rapides Parish, LA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Rapides include Entergy, CLECO Power, Beauregard Electric Cooperative and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Nearby counties & areas

Grant Parish · Avoyelles Parish · Evangeline Parish · Vernon Parish · LaSalle Parish · Allen Parish · Natchitoches Parish · Catahoula Parish

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