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2019 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 253K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 4.2 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2022nd 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 Kent 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 | October 31, 2019 14:45 | November 3, 2019 16:30 | 3d 1h | 6,045 | 92K |
| 2 | January 24, 2019 10:00 | January 25, 2019 22:15 | 1d 12h | 3,279 | 11K |
| 3 | July 10, 2019 21:45 | July 11, 2019 03:15 | 5h 30m | 3,233 | 2,937 |
| 4 | September 22, 2019 04:45 | September 22, 2019 14:45 | 10h | 3,092 | 6,350 |
| 5 | August 19, 2019 21:45 | August 20, 2019 10:30 | 12h 45m | 2,894 | 5,933 |
| 6 | March 1, 2019 19:45 | March 1, 2019 20:45 | 1h | 2,651 | 1,960 |
| 7 | May 21, 2019 11:45 | May 21, 2019 23:45 | 12h | 2,590 | 1,461 |
| 8 | May 8, 2019 19:15 | May 8, 2019 20:45 | 1h 30m | 2,558 | 645 |
| 9 | May 8, 2019 09:15 | May 8, 2019 09:30 | 15m | 2,554 | 639 |
| 10 | March 4, 2019 06:45 | March 4, 2019 21:30 | 14h 45m | 2,343 | 6,718 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 63 reached 100+ customers, 21 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Kent 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 ÷ 120,795 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county