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2023 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 608K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2119th 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 Providence 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 18, 2023 05:15 | December 22, 2023 00:30 | 3d 19h | 22,798 | 373K |
| 2 | October 19, 2023 14:00 | October 20, 2023 02:00 | 12h | 14,620 | 21K |
| 3 | August 18, 2023 12:45 | August 19, 2023 02:00 | 13h 15m | 7,064 | 14K |
| 4 | February 3, 2023 14:30 | February 5, 2023 06:15 | 1d 15h | 5,472 | 41K |
| 5 | April 3, 2023 16:45 | April 3, 2023 21:30 | 4h 45m | 5,235 | 1,319 |
| 6 | April 14, 2023 14:00 | April 15, 2023 02:45 | 12h 45m | 4,745 | 4,646 |
| 7 | August 21, 2023 07:00 | August 21, 2023 07:45 | 45m | 4,731 | 3,016 |
| 8 | September 22, 2023 04:30 | September 22, 2023 05:00 | 30m | 3,960 | 1,980 |
| 9 | April 11, 2023 11:45 | April 11, 2023 13:30 | 1h 45m | 3,581 | 2,776 |
| 10 | July 4, 2023 14:00 | July 5, 2023 07:30 | 17h 30m | 3,268 | 8,423 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 134 reached 100+ customers, 36 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of Rhode Island's customers in 2023; 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, 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/providence-county