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2017 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 131K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 13.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1599th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Newport County, 2017
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 9, 2017 17:15 | February 10, 2017 18:30 | 1d 1h | 7,927 | 14K |
| 2 | October 30, 2017 01:30 | November 4, 2017 01:30 | 5d | 3,869 | 82K |
| 3 | September 21, 2017 19:00 | September 23, 2017 00:15 | 1d 5h | 3,340 | 6,952 |
| 4 | May 26, 2017 02:00 | May 26, 2017 09:00 | 7h | 2,752 | 2,947 |
| 5 | June 6, 2017 12:15 | June 6, 2017 13:15 | 1h | 2,122 | 1,419 |
| 6 | September 21, 2017 08:30 | September 21, 2017 10:45 | 2h 15m | 2,044 | 2,558 |
| 7 | March 27, 2017 18:15 | March 27, 2017 19:15 | 1h | 1,063 | 384 |
| 8 | January 2, 2017 02:15 | January 2, 2017 03:15 | 1h | 1,060 | 794 |
| 9 | March 14, 2017 16:00 | March 15, 2017 05:45 | 13h 45m | 1,052 | 1,297 |
| 10 | August 23, 2017 04:30 | August 23, 2017 11:15 | 6h 45m | 970 | 2,054 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 31 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 12.1 hrs | 1.19 | 59 min | 0.78 |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/rhode-island/newport-county