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2023 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 159K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.0 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1868th 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 Washington 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 | June 17, 2023 06:30 | June 17, 2023 07:45 | 1h 15m | 9,008 | 6,726 |
| 2 | November 22, 2023 10:00 | November 23, 2023 03:15 | 17h 15m | 5,196 | 11K |
| 3 | May 20, 2023 14:15 | May 20, 2023 17:00 | 2h 45m | 4,499 | 2,385 |
| 4 | December 18, 2023 09:45 | December 20, 2023 23:15 | 2d 13h | 4,487 | 65K |
| 5 | February 24, 2023 14:15 | February 25, 2023 02:30 | 12h 15m | 3,464 | 9,807 |
| 6 | April 25, 2023 07:00 | April 25, 2023 13:00 | 6h | 2,943 | 2,392 |
| 7 | July 22, 2023 22:30 | July 23, 2023 02:15 | 3h 45m | 2,703 | 5,382 |
| 8 | December 8, 2023 15:30 | December 8, 2023 22:45 | 7h 15m | 2,310 | 1,833 |
| 9 | May 25, 2023 12:30 | May 25, 2023 15:00 | 2h 30m | 2,255 | 670 |
| 10 | July 27, 2023 15:00 | July 27, 2023 22:30 | 7h 30m | 2,237 | 1,396 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 61 reached 100+ customers, 22 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 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 |
| 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 n/a of Rhode Island's customers in 2023; 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, 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/washington-county