County annual report · FIPS 44007
2015 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 892K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 5.9 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 770th 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 Providence 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 3, 2015 08:30 | August 4, 2015 17:45 | 1d 9h | 49,763 | 277K |
| 2 | August 4, 2015 18:30 | August 5, 2015 03:15 | 8h 45m | 31,176 | 203K |
| 3 | August 5, 2015 04:30 | August 10, 2015 14:45 | 5d 10h | 11,077 | 165K |
| 4 | August 29, 2015 10:45 | August 31, 2015 12:00 | 2d 1h | 7,410 | 31K |
| 5 | March 3, 2015 12:00 | March 4, 2015 05:00 | 17h | 5,222 | 5,227 |
| 6 | June 23, 2015 21:00 | June 24, 2015 08:45 | 11h 45m | 4,922 | 11K |
| 7 | October 20, 2015 18:30 | October 21, 2015 01:45 | 7h 15m | 4,156 | 1,889 |
| 8 | June 8, 2015 18:30 | June 9, 2015 19:45 | 1d 1h | 3,874 | 12K |
| 9 | July 8, 2015 17:15 | July 9, 2015 08:00 | 14h 45m | 3,582 | 3,816 |
| 10 | April 4, 2015 15:00 | April 5, 2015 00:45 | 9h 45m | 3,529 | 3,905 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 152 reached 100+ customers, 48 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Providence 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 |
| Pascoag Utility District | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 242,599 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. Providence County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Providence 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/providence-county