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2022 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 66K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.4 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2685th 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 Newport 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 | November 25, 2022 08:30 | November 25, 2022 10:15 | 1h 45m | 7,860 | 8,673 |
| 2 | August 10, 2022 13:15 | August 10, 2022 20:30 | 7h 15m | 7,848 | 7,808 |
| 3 | February 8, 2022 10:45 | February 8, 2022 12:30 | 1h 45m | 7,494 | 4,829 |
| 4 | August 31, 2022 09:30 | August 31, 2022 15:45 | 6h 15m | 4,058 | 5,566 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 08:45 | December 24, 2022 22:45 | 1d 14h | 3,571 | 8,484 |
| 6 | May 28, 2022 04:00 | May 28, 2022 05:45 | 1h 45m | 3,337 | 4,434 |
| 7 | June 1, 2022 00:00 | June 1, 2022 01:15 | 1h 15m | 2,761 | 2,262 |
| 8 | April 25, 2022 02:15 | April 25, 2022 04:45 | 2h 30m | 2,133 | 2,159 |
| 9 | June 10, 2022 15:00 | June 10, 2022 23:30 | 8h 30m | 2,056 | 1,813 |
| 10 | May 18, 2022 16:30 | May 18, 2022 16:45 | 15m | 1,835 | 459 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 27 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 Newport 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 ÷ 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, 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/newport-county