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2021 Kent County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Kent County, RI went without power for an average of 6.0 hours, a total of 722K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 8.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1153rd 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 Kent 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 02:30 | 3d 1h | 33,386 | 391K |
| 2 | August 22, 2021 11:30 | August 25, 2021 17:30 | 3d 6h | 13,682 | 254K |
| 3 | June 11, 2021 11:45 | June 11, 2021 16:00 | 4h 15m | 3,992 | 1,272 |
| 4 | October 17, 2021 03:00 | October 17, 2021 06:15 | 3h 15m | 2,624 | 2,138 |
| 5 | June 14, 2021 14:45 | June 14, 2021 21:45 | 7h | 2,207 | 1,677 |
| 6 | November 30, 2021 19:15 | November 30, 2021 20:00 | 45m | 2,184 | 1,591 |
| 7 | November 12, 2021 16:15 | November 13, 2021 08:15 | 16h | 2,027 | 4,370 |
| 8 | March 2, 2021 00:00 | March 4, 2021 00:00 | 2d | 1,303 | 13K |
| 9 | November 13, 2021 17:45 | November 14, 2021 21:15 | 1d 3h | 1,013 | 5,216 |
| 10 | December 11, 2021 19:45 | December 12, 2021 06:30 | 10h 45m | 913 | 2,362 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 60 reached 100+ customers, 9 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Kent 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 ÷ 120,795 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. Kent County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Kent 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/kent-county