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2025 Bristol County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Bristol County, RI went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 113K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.5 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1948th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with RI, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Rhode Island customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bristol County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 4, 2025 12:15 | July 4, 2025 16:00 | 3h 45m | 10,623 | 40K |
| 2 | July 5, 2025 01:45 | July 7, 2025 06:15 | 2d 4h | 3,671 | 49K |
| 3 | October 4, 2025 17:00 | October 4, 2025 23:30 | 6h 30m | 2,641 | 2,902 |
| 4 | January 26, 2025 16:15 | January 26, 2025 17:45 | 1h 30m | 2,443 | 2,443 |
| 5 | July 17, 2025 19:30 | July 18, 2025 00:00 | 4h 30m | 2,098 | 3,679 |
| 6 | June 20, 2025 14:00 | June 20, 2025 23:30 | 9h 30m | 1,491 | 969 |
| 7 | December 19, 2025 16:00 | December 20, 2025 21:00 | 1d 5h | 532 | 1,612 |
| 8 | October 20, 2025 12:45 | October 20, 2025 17:00 | 4h 15m | 469 | 301 |
| 9 | November 1, 2025 05:45 | November 1, 2025 17:45 | 12h | 426 | 1,624 |
| 10 | April 28, 2025 18:45 | April 29, 2025 00:30 | 5h 45m | 360 | 1,955 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 24 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 Bristol County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/rhode-island/bristol-county