When will the power be back in Tensas Parish, LA?
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No significant parish-wide outage reported in Tensas 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 Tensas Parish?
Parish-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Entergy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Northeast Louisiana Power Cooperative and Concordia Electric Cooperative 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 — Tensas Parish, LA
Last significant outage: Sep 4, 2026 — peaked at 747 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (heat event).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Tensas Parish, LA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
224 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Louisiana norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~3,101 customers out in May 2018, restored after about 14.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Tensas Parish include Newellton, St. Joseph and Waterproof. Searches and the live map cover every address in this parish, named here or not.
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