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2022 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 42K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.4 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2619th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 17, 2022 11:30 | January 17, 2022 17:15 | 5h 45m | 4,170 | 7,709 |
| 2 | December 23, 2022 08:15 | December 23, 2022 10:00 | 1h 45m | 2,692 | 3,092 |
| 3 | December 23, 2022 10:45 | December 25, 2022 09:45 | 1d 23h | 2,077 | 22K |
| 4 | August 9, 2022 21:45 | August 10, 2022 08:30 | 10h 45m | 1,896 | 1,377 |
| 5 | August 3, 2022 22:45 | August 4, 2022 00:15 | 1h 30m | 793 | 802 |
| 6 | October 17, 2022 11:30 | October 17, 2022 15:00 | 3h 30m | 493 | 1,188 |
| 7 | September 9, 2022 16:45 | September 10, 2022 00:15 | 7h 30m | 255 | 347 |
| 8 | June 14, 2022 15:30 | June 14, 2022 17:45 | 2h 15m | 175 | 350 |
| 9 | June 13, 2022 08:15 | June 13, 2022 15:00 | 6h 45m | 162 | 441 |
| 10 | April 19, 2022 08:45 | April 19, 2022 18:45 | 10h | 161 | 424 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 14 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 82 min | 0.96 | 63 min | 0.81 |
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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/rhode-island/bristol-county