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2020 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 3.1 hours, a total of 193K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 9.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1834th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Newport County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 19:15 | August 7, 2020 15:15 | 2d 20h | 11,055 | 39K |
| 2 | February 7, 2020 16:45 | February 10, 2020 01:00 | 2d 8h | 6,156 | 57K |
| 3 | November 30, 2020 17:45 | December 1, 2020 20:00 | 1d 2h | 5,241 | 25K |
| 4 | September 26, 2020 12:45 | September 26, 2020 16:00 | 3h 15m | 4,819 | 7,392 |
| 5 | July 14, 2020 19:15 | July 15, 2020 20:45 | 1d 1h | 4,736 | 16K |
| 6 | September 28, 2020 08:30 | September 28, 2020 23:00 | 14h 30m | 3,990 | 5,370 |
| 7 | October 7, 2020 21:30 | October 9, 2020 02:45 | 1d 5h | 3,153 | 3,840 |
| 8 | April 2, 2020 01:00 | April 2, 2020 02:15 | 1h 15m | 2,425 | 2,509 |
| 9 | June 27, 2020 21:15 | June 28, 2020 00:45 | 3h 30m | 2,263 | 2,268 |
| 10 | April 18, 2020 09:30 | April 18, 2020 13:15 | 3h 45m | 2,185 | 2,734 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 45 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Newport County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 | 2020 | 9.1 hrs | 1.97 | 69 min | 0.94 |
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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/rhode-island/newport-county