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2016 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 56K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 3.0 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1472nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 5, 2016 19:00 | February 8, 2016 00:45 | 2d 5h | 2,232 | 18K |
| 2 | July 23, 2016 00:45 | July 23, 2016 17:45 | 17h | 2,229 | 15K |
| 3 | December 16, 2016 04:45 | December 16, 2016 20:45 | 16h | 2,167 | 5,690 |
| 4 | July 15, 2016 19:00 | July 16, 2016 01:15 | 6h 15m | 2,127 | 1,692 |
| 5 | November 21, 2016 16:45 | November 21, 2016 17:45 | 1h | 1,963 | 1,346 |
| 6 | August 30, 2016 10:15 | August 30, 2016 13:45 | 3h 30m | 1,010 | 1,769 |
| 7 | February 25, 2016 05:30 | February 26, 2016 01:15 | 19h 45m | 674 | 3,591 |
| 8 | June 16, 2016 23:30 | June 17, 2016 07:45 | 8h 15m | 672 | 540 |
| 9 | February 16, 2016 21:30 | February 17, 2016 01:30 | 4h | 289 | 938 |
| 10 | November 11, 2016 19:45 | November 11, 2016 20:15 | 30m | 278 | 70 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 16 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 2.8 hrs | 1.21 | 69 min | 0.97 |
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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/rhode-island/bristol-county