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2019 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 1.4 hours, a total of 87K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 4.2 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2334th 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 Newport 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 | June 11, 2019 03:45 | June 11, 2019 04:30 | 45m | 7,781 | 2,393 |
| 2 | June 25, 2019 17:00 | June 25, 2019 18:30 | 1h 30m | 4,651 | 2,976 |
| 3 | May 1, 2019 20:30 | May 2, 2019 03:00 | 6h 30m | 2,801 | 2,159 |
| 4 | October 29, 2019 16:30 | October 29, 2019 17:45 | 1h 15m | 2,794 | 1,124 |
| 5 | June 13, 2019 03:30 | June 13, 2019 09:30 | 6h | 2,652 | 4,081 |
| 6 | October 17, 2019 02:45 | October 20, 2019 02:00 | 2d 23h | 2,418 | 36K |
| 7 | January 3, 2019 22:45 | January 4, 2019 00:15 | 1h 30m | 2,269 | 2,445 |
| 8 | February 18, 2019 15:30 | February 18, 2019 15:45 | 15m | 2,260 | 565 |
| 9 | April 1, 2019 13:00 | April 1, 2019 14:45 | 1h 45m | 2,151 | 2,152 |
| 10 | December 15, 2019 02:45 | December 15, 2019 04:15 | 1h 30m | 2,149 | 657 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 34 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Newport 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 ÷ 62,021 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. Newport County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport 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/newport-county