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2021 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 620K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 8.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2016th 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 Providence 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 26, 2021 12:30 | October 30, 2021 05:00 | 3d 16h | 29,389 | 234K |
| 2 | March 1, 2021 18:15 | March 4, 2021 01:00 | 2d 6h | 8,969 | 42K |
| 3 | August 22, 2021 12:45 | August 25, 2021 02:45 | 2d 14h | 7,865 | 77K |
| 4 | July 17, 2021 10:30 | July 18, 2021 06:45 | 20h 15m | 6,981 | 20K |
| 5 | September 6, 2021 04:30 | September 6, 2021 16:30 | 12h | 5,808 | 9,788 |
| 6 | March 18, 2021 14:15 | March 19, 2021 06:15 | 16h | 5,753 | 11K |
| 7 | July 16, 2021 11:45 | July 17, 2021 02:45 | 15h | 5,222 | 2,492 |
| 8 | March 4, 2021 14:45 | March 4, 2021 19:30 | 4h 45m | 5,155 | 6,248 |
| 9 | June 30, 2021 10:15 | July 2, 2021 09:30 | 1d 23h | 5,038 | 9,125 |
| 10 | December 18, 2021 21:00 | December 19, 2021 00:30 | 3h 30m | 4,632 | 6,474 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 163 reached 100+ customers, 56 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 Providence 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 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/providence-county