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2019 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 3.0 hours, a total of 738K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 4.2 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1633rd 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 Providence 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 13:00 | November 3, 2019 23:30 | 3d 10h | 22,592 | 305K |
| 2 | October 17, 2019 01:00 | October 20, 2019 05:15 | 3d 4h | 9,176 | 102K |
| 3 | February 25, 2019 11:45 | February 27, 2019 04:15 | 1d 16h | 8,223 | 59K |
| 4 | December 21, 2019 21:00 | December 22, 2019 04:15 | 7h 15m | 6,789 | 13K |
| 5 | March 4, 2019 07:15 | March 5, 2019 01:15 | 18h | 5,798 | 11K |
| 6 | January 20, 2019 13:30 | January 22, 2019 02:30 | 1d 13h | 5,545 | 23K |
| 7 | December 30, 2019 05:45 | December 30, 2019 09:00 | 3h 15m | 4,113 | 3,255 |
| 8 | November 9, 2019 12:30 | November 10, 2019 09:00 | 20h 30m | 4,077 | 5,693 |
| 9 | December 17, 2019 12:30 | December 19, 2019 06:15 | 1d 17h | 3,897 | 11K |
| 10 | August 19, 2019 17:00 | August 21, 2019 07:15 | 1d 14h | 3,500 | 7,554 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 159 reached 100+ customers, 59 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2019; 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, 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/providence-county