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2022 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 172K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.4 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1782nd 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 Washington 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 | December 23, 2022 03:00 | December 26, 2022 00:45 | 2d 21h | 4,874 | 48K |
| 2 | August 7, 2022 18:45 | August 8, 2022 16:45 | 22h | 4,683 | 10K |
| 3 | February 18, 2022 08:45 | February 19, 2022 09:45 | 1d 1h | 3,685 | 19K |
| 4 | January 17, 2022 08:30 | January 17, 2022 21:45 | 13h 15m | 3,617 | 7,104 |
| 5 | March 25, 2022 01:00 | March 25, 2022 04:45 | 3h 45m | 3,506 | 2,751 |
| 6 | April 19, 2022 07:45 | April 20, 2022 01:30 | 17h 45m | 3,349 | 14K |
| 7 | September 18, 2022 16:00 | September 19, 2022 04:30 | 12h 30m | 2,949 | 2,486 |
| 8 | December 7, 2022 13:30 | December 8, 2022 00:15 | 10h 45m | 2,937 | 2,307 |
| 9 | March 18, 2022 17:45 | March 18, 2022 18:30 | 45m | 2,766 | 1,889 |
| 10 | October 18, 2022 08:15 | October 18, 2022 09:15 | 1h | 2,210 | 1,513 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 74 reached 100+ customers, 26 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 Washington 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 |
| 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 2022; 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, 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/washington-county