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2016 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 100K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 3.0 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1489th 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 Newport 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 | June 23, 2016 06:45 | June 23, 2016 07:00 | 15m | 4,739 | 1,185 |
| 2 | February 25, 2016 05:45 | February 25, 2016 16:00 | 10h 15m | 3,568 | 5,711 |
| 3 | April 28, 2016 15:15 | April 28, 2016 18:45 | 3h 30m | 3,235 | 4,047 |
| 4 | November 26, 2016 06:15 | November 26, 2016 09:45 | 3h 30m | 2,834 | 2,871 |
| 5 | February 20, 2016 20:00 | February 20, 2016 22:30 | 2h 30m | 2,796 | 3,494 |
| 6 | February 5, 2016 14:45 | February 7, 2016 09:45 | 1d 19h | 2,769 | 27K |
| 7 | April 25, 2016 01:45 | April 25, 2016 03:15 | 1h 30m | 2,689 | 2,094 |
| 8 | January 13, 2016 01:30 | January 13, 2016 04:45 | 3h 15m | 2,048 | 5,119 |
| 9 | August 13, 2016 00:00 | August 13, 2016 08:00 | 8h | 2,043 | 6,132 |
| 10 | July 20, 2016 05:45 | July 20, 2016 09:45 | 4h | 2,035 | 1,891 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 35 reached 100+ customers, 20 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 Newport 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 ÷ 62,021 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. Newport County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport 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/newport-county