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2021 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 5.6 hours, a total of 190K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 8.1 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1217th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2021
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 27, 2021 01:30 | October 30, 2021 01:00 | 2d 23h | 19,130 | 151K |
| 2 | July 28, 2021 13:30 | July 28, 2021 14:30 | 1h | 4,766 | 1,192 |
| 3 | May 18, 2021 09:45 | May 18, 2021 14:00 | 4h 15m | 3,706 | 6,614 |
| 4 | August 22, 2021 10:00 | August 23, 2021 19:30 | 1d 9h | 3,485 | 10K |
| 5 | May 7, 2021 12:00 | May 7, 2021 16:00 | 4h | 3,464 | 3,744 |
| 6 | September 2, 2021 07:15 | September 2, 2021 20:15 | 13h | 2,170 | 2,961 |
| 7 | July 17, 2021 18:30 | July 18, 2021 05:00 | 10h 30m | 1,055 | 3,373 |
| 8 | May 29, 2021 02:45 | May 29, 2021 04:15 | 1h 30m | 874 | 1,310 |
| 9 | September 26, 2021 07:00 | September 26, 2021 08:00 | 1h | 409 | 409 |
| 10 | October 31, 2021 06:00 | October 31, 2021 23:30 | 17h 30m | 386 | 2,485 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 19 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 Bristol County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2021, 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 | 2021 | 7.5 hrs | 1.43 | 69 min | 0.95 |
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 2021; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 33,839 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. Bristol County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bristol County, RI annual power outage report, 2021, 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/2021/rhode-island/bristol-county