24/7 Emergency Electrician Shreveport | 60–90 Min

24 hour electrician near you — answered live, 24/7

A live person answers our emergency line 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — nights, weekends, and holidays included. If you're searching for a 24 hour electrician near me in Shreveport, Bossier City, Haughton, Benton, Stonewall, Greenwood, or Keithville, call 318-688-2788 and we'll dispatch a truck. No answering service, no callback queue, and no overtime, weekend, or holiday surcharges.

When to call for emergency electrical service

Some electrical problems can wait until morning. Others can't. Call 318-688-2788 right now if you smell hot plastic or burning insulation, see scorch marks or smoke around an outlet or panel, hear sizzling or buzzing inside the wall, have a breaker that won't reset, or have lost power to half the house while the other half still works — that last one usually means a lost neutral, and lost-neutral situations destroy electronics fast. Do not flip breakers on and off trying to "fix" it; cut the main and call us.

We answer 24/7 and most after-hours calls in Shreveport, Bossier City, Haughton, Benton, and Stonewall are on-site within 60–90 minutes. There are no overtime or weekend fees — the rate at 2 a.m. on a Sunday is the same as 10 a.m. on a Tuesday. We arrive with stocked trucks, restore safe power as quickly as we can, and document everything you'll need for an insurance claim if storm damage, a lightning strike, or a fire is involved.

Common emergency calls during Louisiana storm season include lightning-fried panels and surge-damaged HVAC, fallen-tree service drops pulled off the house, water-intrusion into outlets and meter bases, and generator-transfer-switch failures during extended outages. We can also coordinate with SWEPCO when the issue is on the utility side rather than yours.

What an emergency call costs — and what it doesn't

The most common question we get at midnight is "how much extra is this going to be?" The answer is nothing extra. Our diagnostic rate is flat around the clock — no overtime multiplier, no weekend rate, no holiday surcharge — and you get a written number before any repair work starts. Most after-hours repairs (a failed breaker, a burned receptacle, a dead circuit traced and replaced) land in the $200–$650 range. Panel replacements, burned service masts, and meter-base repairs run higher and are quoted on site.

What to do before we get there

If you smell hot plastic or see smoke, shut the main breaker off and leave it off. If half the house lost power, unplug electronics and appliances on the affected side immediately — a lost neutral swings voltage well above 120V and destroys equipment within minutes. Never reset a breaker that trips twice; it's telling you something is faulted. If water is anywhere near a panel, outlet, or meter base, don't touch it. And if a line is down in the yard, stay at least 30 feet away and call SWEPCO and us both.

Utility side or your side?

A big share of Shreveport and Bossier outage calls turn out to be a split responsibility. SWEPCO owns the service drop, the meter itself, and the transformer. You own the service mast, the meter base, the panel, and everything past it. When we arrive we determine which side failed first, because that decides who pays and how fast power comes back. If it's the mast or meter base — very common after a wind event pulls a limb through the drop — we repair it, get it inspected, and stand by for the utility reconnect so you're not waiting another full day.

Storm-season emergencies in Northwest Louisiana

Between spring severe weather and hurricane remnants pushing up from the Gulf, our busiest emergency weeks come with a predictable pattern: lightning-damaged panels and fried HVAC control boards, surge-killed well pumps and garage-door openers, transfer switches that fail on the first real outage because they were never load-tested, and generator hookups that need to happen tonight. We stock surge devices, common breakers, meter sockets, and mast material on the trucks so most of these get fixed on the first visit instead of turning into a parts-order delay.