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2021 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 47.3 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (Rhode Island average 8.1 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 190th 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 Washington 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 09:30 | August 27, 2021 05:00 | 4d 19h | 52,955 | 1.5M |
| 2 | October 26, 2021 14:00 | October 31, 2021 01:15 | 4d 11h | 42,616 | 533K |
| 3 | November 13, 2021 21:00 | November 15, 2021 20:45 | 1d 23h | 9,868 | 67K |
| 4 | July 20, 2021 16:15 | July 21, 2021 01:00 | 8h 45m | 7,580 | 11K |
| 5 | February 1, 2021 20:15 | February 3, 2021 05:45 | 1d 9h | 6,931 | 34K |
| 6 | November 12, 2021 18:00 | November 13, 2021 08:45 | 14h 45m | 4,947 | 8,564 |
| 7 | March 1, 2021 18:45 | March 1, 2021 20:00 | 1h 15m | 4,831 | 3,620 |
| 8 | April 20, 2021 16:30 | April 20, 2021 21:15 | 4h 45m | 3,292 | 1,546 |
| 9 | March 2, 2021 00:15 | March 4, 2021 02:45 | 2d 2h | 3,239 | 35K |
| 10 | May 11, 2021 10:15 | May 11, 2021 13:30 | 3h 15m | 2,948 | 1,490 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 73 reached 100+ customers, 29 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 Washington 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 |
| Block Island 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 ÷ 48,730 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. Washington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Washington 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/washington-county