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2018 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 30.5 hours, a total of 1.5M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 11.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 184th 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 Washington 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 10:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 15h | 37,375 | 1.2M |
| 2 | March 13, 2018 09:30 | March 15, 2018 09:00 | 1d 23h | 15,666 | 154K |
| 3 | May 30, 2018 17:15 | May 30, 2018 20:00 | 2h 45m | 5,546 | 1,404 |
| 4 | August 18, 2018 20:30 | August 19, 2018 09:30 | 13h | 5,115 | 9,667 |
| 5 | April 16, 2018 18:30 | April 17, 2018 17:00 | 22h 30m | 3,166 | 8,176 |
| 6 | November 15, 2018 23:30 | November 16, 2018 15:30 | 16h | 2,954 | 3,325 |
| 7 | September 28, 2018 13:30 | September 28, 2018 21:30 | 8h | 2,914 | 1,863 |
| 8 | October 16, 2018 01:45 | October 16, 2018 22:45 | 21h | 2,884 | 9,926 |
| 9 | August 29, 2018 16:45 | August 29, 2018 18:30 | 1h 45m | 2,820 | 1,947 |
| 10 | August 10, 2018 19:45 | August 11, 2018 01:15 | 5h 30m | 2,591 | 2,779 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 90 reached 100+ customers, 25 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 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 |
| 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 99% of Rhode Island's customers in 2018; 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, 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/washington-county