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2024 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 44K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.8 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2629th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 22, 2024 10:15 | September 22, 2024 16:15 | 6h | 5,805 | 4,836 |
| 2 | June 27, 2024 03:45 | June 28, 2024 13:15 | 1d 9h | 4,267 | 19K |
| 3 | May 5, 2024 23:30 | May 6, 2024 01:00 | 1h 30m | 1,295 | 972 |
| 4 | October 25, 2024 15:30 | October 25, 2024 19:30 | 4h | 1,272 | 733 |
| 5 | May 9, 2024 00:00 | May 9, 2024 03:00 | 3h | 1,253 | 1,351 |
| 6 | January 10, 2024 06:00 | January 11, 2024 04:15 | 22h 15m | 830 | 3,443 |
| 7 | September 8, 2024 01:30 | September 8, 2024 06:00 | 4h 30m | 780 | 609 |
| 8 | December 11, 2024 18:45 | December 12, 2024 18:15 | 23h 30m | 672 | 4,585 |
| 9 | November 24, 2024 18:15 | November 24, 2024 23:30 | 5h 15m | 479 | 1,121 |
| 10 | July 14, 2024 01:00 | July 14, 2024 02:00 | 1h | 316 | 314 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 16 reached 100+ customers, 5 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 1.7 hrs | 0.90 | 61 min | 0.76 |
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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/rhode-island/bristol-county