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2016 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 312K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 3.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 539th 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 Washington 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 | December 5, 2016 15:45 | December 5, 2016 23:30 | 7h 45m | 49,904 | 42K |
| 2 | February 5, 2016 14:30 | February 8, 2016 22:45 | 3d 8h | 9,526 | 154K |
| 3 | August 11, 2016 20:00 | August 12, 2016 01:15 | 5h 15m | 8,404 | 4,579 |
| 4 | August 11, 2016 19:00 | August 11, 2016 19:15 | 15m | 8,401 | 2,100 |
| 5 | July 23, 2016 00:15 | July 23, 2016 23:15 | 23h | 3,759 | 22K |
| 6 | February 25, 2016 05:15 | February 26, 2016 00:45 | 19h 30m | 3,190 | 17K |
| 7 | September 30, 2016 19:15 | October 1, 2016 10:00 | 14h 45m | 3,126 | 4,450 |
| 8 | September 5, 2016 16:45 | September 6, 2016 21:45 | 1d 5h | 2,118 | 16K |
| 9 | March 31, 2016 16:45 | April 1, 2016 00:30 | 7h 45m | 1,957 | 1,430 |
| 10 | September 12, 2016 20:00 | September 12, 2016 20:45 | 45m | 1,530 | 1,147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 63 reached 100+ customers, 14 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Washington 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 |
| Block Island 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 ÷ 48,730 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county