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2021 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 4.4 hours, a total of 274K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 8.1 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1448th 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 Newport 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 | August 22, 2021 13:00 | August 25, 2021 01:00 | 2d 12h | 11,905 | 83K |
| 2 | October 27, 2021 02:45 | October 31, 2021 00:30 | 3d 21h | 8,644 | 112K |
| 3 | July 6, 2021 18:45 | July 8, 2021 21:30 | 2d 2h | 7,204 | 25K |
| 4 | December 22, 2021 13:00 | December 22, 2021 17:00 | 4h | 4,833 | 3,402 |
| 5 | February 21, 2021 20:15 | February 22, 2021 05:15 | 9h | 3,896 | 7,377 |
| 6 | March 2, 2021 05:00 | March 2, 2021 21:15 | 16h 15m | 2,997 | 7,434 |
| 7 | March 15, 2021 12:00 | March 15, 2021 16:00 | 4h | 2,572 | 1,462 |
| 8 | August 22, 2021 10:30 | August 22, 2021 11:30 | 1h | 2,570 | 1,285 |
| 9 | September 2, 2021 06:15 | September 2, 2021 22:30 | 16h 15m | 2,160 | 4,047 |
| 10 | April 25, 2021 15:00 | April 25, 2021 15:45 | 45m | 2,130 | 1,059 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 39 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 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 ÷ 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, 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/newport-county