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2019 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 4.6 hours, a total of 155K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 4.2 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1186th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 15, 2019 11:15 | April 15, 2019 22:00 | 10h 45m | 23,284 | 59K |
| 2 | May 1, 2019 17:00 | May 1, 2019 18:30 | 1h 30m | 19,073 | 4,811 |
| 3 | July 15, 2019 11:00 | July 15, 2019 11:15 | 15m | 8,510 | 2,128 |
| 4 | July 14, 2019 22:15 | July 15, 2019 05:00 | 6h 45m | 8,505 | 24K |
| 5 | October 17, 2019 00:30 | October 19, 2019 04:30 | 2d 4h | 4,496 | 46K |
| 6 | October 13, 2019 14:30 | October 13, 2019 16:30 | 2h | 3,455 | 4,319 |
| 7 | June 13, 2019 18:45 | June 13, 2019 21:15 | 2h 30m | 2,153 | 2,404 |
| 8 | May 24, 2019 11:15 | May 25, 2019 01:30 | 14h 15m | 1,504 | 744 |
| 9 | November 23, 2019 02:30 | November 23, 2019 03:00 | 30m | 1,459 | 730 |
| 10 | May 31, 2019 13:30 | May 31, 2019 20:45 | 7h 15m | 1,184 | 1,578 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 21 reached 100+ customers, 10 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 Bristol County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
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 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 33,839 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. Bristol County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bristol County, RI annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/rhode-island/bristol-county