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2017 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 11.9 hours, a total of 2.9M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 13.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 461st 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 Providence 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 | October 29, 2017 23:30 | November 5, 2017 04:00 | 6d 4h | 67,995 | 2.6M |
| 2 | July 12, 2017 13:30 | July 13, 2017 21:30 | 1d 8h | 9,655 | 34K |
| 3 | March 14, 2017 15:30 | March 15, 2017 18:30 | 1d 3h | 8,646 | 13K |
| 4 | February 9, 2017 15:45 | February 10, 2017 22:15 | 1d 6h | 6,377 | 25K |
| 5 | September 26, 2017 21:45 | September 27, 2017 06:30 | 8h 45m | 4,686 | 5,457 |
| 6 | July 15, 2017 15:00 | July 15, 2017 20:00 | 5h | 4,526 | 2,273 |
| 7 | October 29, 2017 05:15 | October 29, 2017 07:30 | 2h 15m | 3,576 | 5,785 |
| 8 | July 8, 2017 11:45 | July 8, 2017 18:30 | 6h 45m | 3,546 | 3,743 |
| 9 | May 8, 2017 02:15 | May 8, 2017 05:15 | 3h | 3,301 | 6,732 |
| 10 | October 24, 2017 12:00 | October 25, 2017 18:45 | 1d 6h | 3,166 | 3,384 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 154 reached 100+ customers, 51 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 Providence 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/providence-county