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2020 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 12.0 hours, a total of 2.9M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 9.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 667th 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 Providence 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 12:45 | August 8, 2020 19:45 | 4d 7h | 84,135 | 1.8M |
| 2 | October 7, 2020 16:30 | October 10, 2020 04:45 | 2d 12h | 33,212 | 278K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 18:30 | February 10, 2020 03:30 | 2d 9h | 23,929 | 157K |
| 4 | November 30, 2020 11:30 | December 2, 2020 06:00 | 1d 18h | 21,386 | 149K |
| 5 | October 12, 2020 11:30 | October 13, 2020 01:15 | 13h 45m | 20,219 | 12K |
| 6 | April 13, 2020 17:15 | April 15, 2020 22:15 | 2d 5h | 14,856 | 138K |
| 7 | September 30, 2020 07:15 | October 2, 2020 01:15 | 1d 18h | 9,426 | 75K |
| 8 | December 5, 2020 19:30 | December 7, 2020 02:45 | 1d 7h | 8,337 | 15K |
| 9 | March 14, 2020 07:30 | March 14, 2020 22:45 | 15h 15m | 6,524 | 23K |
| 10 | March 14, 2020 02:00 | March 14, 2020 03:00 | 1h | 5,400 | 2,481 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 184 reached 100+ customers, 66 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| 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 2020; 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, 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/providence-county