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2017 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 32.5 hours, a total of 1.6M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 13.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 154th 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 Washington 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 22:30 | November 4, 2017 20:30 | 5d 22h | 31,357 | 1.4M |
| 2 | September 6, 2017 14:00 | September 7, 2017 00:00 | 10h | 13,967 | 12K |
| 3 | March 2, 2017 14:00 | March 3, 2017 20:15 | 1d 6h | 6,387 | 15K |
| 4 | February 9, 2017 16:30 | February 11, 2017 20:00 | 2d 3h | 5,025 | 36K |
| 5 | September 21, 2017 06:15 | September 22, 2017 01:00 | 18h 45m | 3,347 | 7,089 |
| 6 | April 15, 2017 06:15 | April 15, 2017 11:00 | 4h 45m | 3,124 | 5,372 |
| 7 | March 13, 2017 03:00 | March 13, 2017 08:00 | 5h | 2,976 | 2,783 |
| 8 | December 5, 2017 23:30 | December 6, 2017 10:30 | 11h | 2,950 | 3,861 |
| 9 | December 13, 2017 15:15 | December 14, 2017 00:45 | 9h 30m | 2,832 | 1,688 |
| 10 | April 16, 2017 00:15 | April 16, 2017 03:45 | 3h 30m | 2,210 | 1,684 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 62 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Washington 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/washington-county