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2016 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 691K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 3.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1038th 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 Providence 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 13:00 | February 9, 2016 02:45 | 3d 13h | 16,406 | 280K |
| 2 | February 25, 2016 03:15 | February 26, 2016 05:45 | 1d 2h | 11,369 | 54K |
| 3 | October 12, 2016 23:15 | October 13, 2016 04:30 | 5h 15m | 9,666 | 4,945 |
| 4 | March 31, 2016 13:15 | April 2, 2016 09:00 | 1d 19h | 7,458 | 29K |
| 5 | August 26, 2016 11:45 | August 27, 2016 02:00 | 14h 15m | 6,803 | 7,478 |
| 6 | April 3, 2016 10:15 | April 4, 2016 01:15 | 15h | 6,207 | 16K |
| 7 | September 5, 2016 14:00 | September 6, 2016 19:30 | 1d 5h | 5,810 | 34K |
| 8 | September 10, 2016 13:45 | September 10, 2016 21:00 | 7h 15m | 5,707 | 1,527 |
| 9 | August 25, 2016 22:00 | August 26, 2016 05:30 | 7h 30m | 5,330 | 18K |
| 10 | June 21, 2016 11:15 | June 22, 2016 02:15 | 15h | 4,695 | 3,476 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 164 reached 100+ customers, 61 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/providence-county