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2024 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 4.2 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 1.8 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1785th 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 Washington 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 | January 13, 2024 10:15 | January 15, 2024 02:00 | 1d 15h | 21,869 | 86K |
| 2 | October 9, 2024 02:45 | October 9, 2024 07:00 | 4h 15m | 4,501 | 5,703 |
| 3 | December 18, 2024 09:30 | December 18, 2024 10:30 | 1h | 4,177 | 4,177 |
| 4 | December 11, 2024 18:45 | December 13, 2024 05:45 | 1d 11h | 3,244 | 21K |
| 5 | March 11, 2024 14:45 | March 12, 2024 03:30 | 12h 45m | 3,164 | 5,862 |
| 6 | July 31, 2024 14:15 | July 31, 2024 14:45 | 30m | 2,935 | 1,468 |
| 7 | November 25, 2024 12:00 | November 25, 2024 22:45 | 10h 45m | 2,781 | 2,245 |
| 8 | October 8, 2024 23:30 | October 9, 2024 01:45 | 2h 15m | 2,657 | 3,507 |
| 9 | August 10, 2024 01:30 | August 10, 2024 17:45 | 16h 15m | 2,536 | 3,261 |
| 10 | January 10, 2024 04:00 | January 11, 2024 03:00 | 23h | 2,317 | 3,796 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 72 reached 100+ customers, 25 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/washington-county