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2023 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 1.5 hours, a total of 51K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.0 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2491st of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2023
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 1, 2023 19:15 | December 1, 2023 20:00 | 45m | 4,795 | 2,836 |
| 2 | June 10, 2023 04:15 | June 10, 2023 08:45 | 4h 30m | 4,012 | 15K |
| 3 | December 18, 2023 10:45 | December 21, 2023 17:45 | 3d 7h | 2,946 | 23K |
| 4 | July 12, 2023 19:15 | July 12, 2023 20:30 | 1h 15m | 1,333 | 879 |
| 5 | October 21, 2023 18:45 | October 21, 2023 19:45 | 1h | 867 | 867 |
| 6 | December 11, 2023 20:15 | December 12, 2023 03:45 | 7h 30m | 800 | 412 |
| 7 | December 11, 2023 08:30 | December 11, 2023 18:45 | 10h 15m | 546 | 840 |
| 8 | July 4, 2023 19:45 | July 5, 2023 02:30 | 6h 45m | 403 | 1,232 |
| 9 | August 10, 2023 08:45 | August 10, 2023 11:00 | 2h 15m | 291 | 220 |
| 10 | September 1, 2023 13:00 | September 1, 2023 14:45 | 1h 45m | 262 | 147 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.78 | 52 min | 0.67 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Rhode Island's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/rhode-island/bristol-county