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2015 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 134K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 5.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 703rd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2015 10:45 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 7h | 5,989 | 30K |
| 2 | August 4, 2015 18:30 | August 5, 2015 03:15 | 8h 45m | 5,822 | 38K |
| 3 | July 27, 2015 06:15 | July 27, 2015 18:00 | 11h 45m | 5,104 | 20K |
| 4 | August 5, 2015 04:30 | August 7, 2015 01:45 | 1d 21h | 3,066 | 22K |
| 5 | July 15, 2015 22:00 | July 16, 2015 06:45 | 8h 45m | 2,535 | 4,579 |
| 6 | January 27, 2015 17:30 | January 27, 2015 20:30 | 3h | 2,037 | 2,476 |
| 7 | December 24, 2015 19:00 | December 25, 2015 00:30 | 5h 30m | 2,018 | 1,868 |
| 8 | September 30, 2015 11:30 | October 1, 2015 05:00 | 17h 30m | 1,961 | 3,588 |
| 9 | October 7, 2015 09:45 | October 7, 2015 12:45 | 3h | 1,709 | 1,602 |
| 10 | June 15, 2015 13:45 | June 15, 2015 18:15 | 4h 30m | 1,008 | 527 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 28 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Bristol County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Narragansett Electric Co | 2015 | 5.7 hrs | 1.23 | 64 min | 0.94 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Rhode Island's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 33,839 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Bristol County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bristol County, RI annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/rhode-island/bristol-county