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2024 Newport County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Newport County, RI went without power for an average of 0.6 hours, a total of 37K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.8 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2823rd 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 Newport 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 | February 16, 2024 14:45 | February 17, 2024 00:15 | 9h 30m | 3,050 | 1,565 |
| 2 | October 20, 2024 22:15 | October 21, 2024 04:00 | 5h 45m | 2,483 | 1,714 |
| 3 | October 1, 2024 13:00 | October 1, 2024 19:45 | 6h 45m | 2,277 | 6,835 |
| 4 | May 6, 2024 02:45 | May 6, 2024 09:00 | 6h 15m | 1,948 | 4,304 |
| 5 | September 2, 2024 17:30 | September 2, 2024 20:30 | 3h | 1,914 | 1,095 |
| 6 | April 22, 2024 17:00 | April 22, 2024 18:45 | 1h 45m | 1,794 | 1,042 |
| 7 | February 29, 2024 11:30 | February 29, 2024 13:30 | 2h | 1,793 | 962 |
| 8 | July 26, 2024 14:15 | July 26, 2024 16:00 | 1h 45m | 1,661 | 417 |
| 9 | February 13, 2024 15:15 | February 14, 2024 15:15 | 1d | 1,487 | 1,732 |
| 10 | August 9, 2024 19:00 | August 10, 2024 06:15 | 11h 15m | 1,423 | 1,935 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 30 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 Newport 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 ÷ 62,021 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. Newport County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Newport 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/newport-county