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2024 Providence County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Providence County, RI went without power for an average of 2.1 hours, a total of 514K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.8 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 2377th 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 Providence 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 | June 27, 2024 03:30 | June 29, 2024 05:15 | 2d 1h | 23,679 | 235K |
| 2 | June 7, 2024 14:15 | June 7, 2024 15:45 | 1h 30m | 12,925 | 15K |
| 3 | May 17, 2024 14:45 | May 17, 2024 22:30 | 7h 45m | 8,657 | 6,439 |
| 4 | June 23, 2024 17:30 | June 24, 2024 21:00 | 1d 3h | 8,627 | 11K |
| 5 | July 2, 2024 09:30 | July 3, 2024 02:45 | 17h 15m | 6,746 | 14K |
| 6 | September 25, 2024 11:45 | September 25, 2024 17:30 | 5h 45m | 4,474 | 6,775 |
| 7 | July 18, 2024 09:30 | July 19, 2024 04:15 | 18h 45m | 4,226 | 9,746 |
| 8 | November 8, 2024 11:45 | November 9, 2024 06:15 | 18h 30m | 3,947 | 7,068 |
| 9 | October 12, 2024 15:15 | October 13, 2024 07:15 | 16h | 3,320 | 3,992 |
| 10 | August 30, 2024 07:00 | August 30, 2024 14:00 | 7h | 3,252 | 5,182 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 158 reached 100+ customers, 57 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/providence-county