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2022 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 1.2 hours, a total of 291K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2631st 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 Providence 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 | July 28, 2022 08:45 | July 28, 2022 20:00 | 11h 15m | 8,770 | 13K |
| 2 | August 17, 2022 10:15 | August 17, 2022 11:00 | 45m | 8,331 | 5,377 |
| 3 | October 10, 2022 01:15 | October 10, 2022 02:30 | 1h 15m | 8,128 | 6,237 |
| 4 | June 13, 2022 02:00 | June 14, 2022 05:15 | 1d 3h | 7,567 | 5,777 |
| 5 | December 23, 2022 08:00 | December 25, 2022 19:15 | 2d 11h | 5,505 | 62K |
| 6 | August 23, 2022 16:30 | August 25, 2022 01:45 | 1d 9h | 5,476 | 22K |
| 7 | February 18, 2022 07:30 | February 19, 2022 04:45 | 21h 15m | 5,004 | 18K |
| 8 | August 12, 2022 11:00 | August 12, 2022 18:00 | 7h | 4,666 | 3,315 |
| 9 | April 14, 2022 14:30 | April 14, 2022 16:30 | 2h | 4,648 | 3,612 |
| 10 | November 15, 2022 18:45 | November 15, 2022 20:00 | 1h 15m | 3,839 | 1,562 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 153 reached 100+ customers, 39 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 Providence 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/providence-county