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2018 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 10.5 hours, a total of 2.5M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 11.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 526th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Providence County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 2, 2018 08:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 17h | 64,587 | 1.8M |
| 2 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 11, 2018 08:00 | 5d 4h | 18,952 | 302K |
| 3 | October 23, 2018 15:00 | October 24, 2018 04:00 | 13h | 12,547 | 7,454 |
| 4 | August 18, 2018 19:45 | August 19, 2018 06:15 | 10h 30m | 10,684 | 21K |
| 5 | March 13, 2018 06:30 | March 15, 2018 05:30 | 1d 23h | 9,918 | 70K |
| 6 | April 16, 2018 17:45 | April 17, 2018 05:00 | 11h 15m | 8,454 | 5,554 |
| 7 | February 20, 2018 04:30 | February 20, 2018 14:00 | 9h 30m | 5,176 | 9,646 |
| 8 | August 5, 2018 16:15 | August 5, 2018 18:30 | 2h 15m | 4,209 | 4,097 |
| 9 | December 21, 2018 12:00 | December 22, 2018 06:00 | 18h | 4,187 | 11K |
| 10 | October 27, 2018 12:00 | October 28, 2018 02:15 | 14h 15m | 4,170 | 4,697 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 177 reached 100+ customers, 74 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 9.9 hrs | 1.57 | 65 min | 1.00 |
| 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 99% of Rhode Island's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/rhode-island/providence-county