Baton Rouge, Louisiana Power Outage Today

How reliable is Entergy Louisiana service in Baton Rouge?

Entergy Louisiana is an investor-owned utility with 1,124,748 customers. In 2024 its customers averaged 2.04 interruptions and 610 minutes (about 10.2 hours) without power, so the average outage lasted about 5 hours.

About 65% of that time came on major event days, the severe-weather days that utilities report separately. On ordinary days the average falls to 213 minutes. A handful of severe-weather days, not everyday faults, set this utility’s year.

The long average outage is the notable figure: when the lights went out for Entergy Louisiana customers, they stayed out for about 5 hours on average, which is long enough to spoil refrigerated food and strain medical needs.

For comparison, Louisiana as a whole averaged 728 minutes and the United States 614 minutes. That puts Entergy Louisiana below the state average, which is better.

Among the 15 utilities in Louisiana with at least 5,000 customers that report to the federal government, Entergy Louisiana ranks 9th for the fewest outage minutes (1 is best). Nationally, 17% of the 926 utilities of that size reported more outage minutes in 2024.

These are the figures the utility itself reported to the US Energy Information Administration (Form EIA-861, 2024) and describe the whole service territory, not one street. Your own address can be better or worse.

Storm season and outages in Baton Rouge

NOAA’s Storm Events Database lists 270 storm reports for East Baton Rouge Parish from 2015 through 2026, most often thunderstorm wind (108), flash flood (101), hail (35), and lightning (10). The busiest full year was 2023 with 38 reports and the quietest was 2015 with 10, so the risk changes a lot from one year to the next.

Reports peak in May (57 since 2015), followed by June and April. October is outside those three months, so an outage now is less likely to be weather-related.

NOAA’s own narratives name power outages in 1 storm episode in East Baton Rouge Parish since 2015. That count is a floor, since the database records outages only when a spotter or agency mentions them.

What the most common storm types in Baton Rouge do to the grid:

• Flash flood. Floodwater reaches ground-level transformers, meters and low-lying substations. Utilities may shut power off ahead of the water on purpose, and wading near flooded equipment can electrocute.
• Thunderstorm wind. Straight-line wind pushes trees and limbs into distribution lines. These outages are usually local, a street or a neighborhood at a time, and crews clear them circuit by circuit.
• Hail. Hail rarely cuts power by itself, but it often arrives with the wind and lightning that do, and it breaks solar panels, windshields and exposed utility equipment.

Storm reports that name Baton Rouge

Within East Baton Rouge Parish, 86 NOAA storm reports since 2015 name Baton Rouge as their location or in their description: flash flood (34), thunderstorm wind (32), hail (10), and flood (3). That is about 32% of the county’s reports. Reports naming Baton Rouge are most common in May. The busiest full year was 2021 with 12. These reports record 6 deaths and 1 injury in total.

In NOAA’s own words, storms that left Baton Rouge without power:

• June 5, 2018 (thunderstorm wind): “A couple of trees and power lines were reported blown down on the north and northeast sides of Baton Rouge near Baker and Merrydale.” Source: NOAA Storm Events Database

Who a power outage hits hardest in Baton Rouge

66.7% of occupied homes in Baton Rouge are heated with electricity (US 41.3%). In a winter outage those homes lose heat the moment the power fails, and electric furnaces and heat pumps are too large to run from a portable generator. Warm layers, blankets and a plan for where to stay matter more here than in a gas-heated city.

Residents aged 65 or older are 14.2% of the population in Baton Rouge, below the US share of 17.2% and 16.1% report a disability (US 13.3%). These are the households most likely to depend on powered medical equipment such as oxygen concentrators, CPAP machines and refrigerated medicine. If someone in your home does, ask Entergy Louisiana whether it keeps a priority or medical-needs list, and register before the next storm rather than during it.

About the housing: 38.9% of the housing in Baton Rouge was built before 1970 (US 35.5%); 16.3% of homes are in buildings with 20 or more units (US 10.3%), where an outage also stops elevators and water pumps, which matters for upper floors and anyone who cannot use stairs; 52.2% of households rent (US 34.8%), so many residents depend on a landlord to restore building systems and cannot add a generator or battery themselves.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024 (housing, heating fuel, age and disability tables).

Backup power and electricity use in Baton Rouge

The average Entergy Louisiana home used about 1,224 kWh a month in 2024 (US average 892 kWh), an average draw of 1.7 kW around the clock, and paid about 11.1 cents per kWh (11.7 in the state, 15.8 nationally), roughly $135 a month.

Keeping only the essentials on (a refrigerator, router, a few lights and phone chargers, about 400 watts) through an outage that lasts the average about 5 hours takes about 2.0 kWh. A portable power station in the 1 to 3 kWh range covers part of that, and a small inverter generator covers all of it.

A generator must never run indoors, in a garage or near a window; generator and food-safety rules are in the power outage guide linked below.

If the power is out in Baton Rouge

About 227,470 people live in Baton Rouge, the 2nd largest of the 5 Louisiana cities on this site. Report the outage to the utility so a ticket exists for your address, then check Entergy Louisiana’s outage map for an estimate. If neighbors have power and you do not, report it again: the fault may be on the line to your house alone, which is a separate repair.

Baton Rouge power outage map

Entergy Louisiana’s outage map has the official restoration estimate for your address; the count above comes from residents. Food and generator safety: power outage guide.

Baton Rouge power outage questions