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2025 Washington County, RI Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Washington County, RI went without power for an average of 3.6 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (Rhode Island average 2.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 5 Rhode Island counties and 1875th 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 Washington 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 | May 6, 2025 17:15 | May 7, 2025 01:30 | 8h 15m | 3,412 | 9,079 |
| 2 | September 22, 2025 12:30 | December 12, 2025 04:45 | 80d 16h | 3,398 | 36K |
| 3 | March 7, 2025 05:30 | March 8, 2025 22:00 | 1d 16h | 3,195 | 16K |
| 4 | December 12, 2025 06:00 | January 1, 2026 00:00 | 19d 18h | 3,013 | 25K |
| 5 | April 21, 2025 13:45 | May 4, 2025 22:45 | 13d 9h | 3,010 | 12K |
| 6 | May 11, 2025 17:15 | June 6, 2025 03:15 | 25d 10h | 2,680 | 11K |
| 7 | June 6, 2025 04:00 | July 26, 2025 04:30 | 50d | 2,194 | 22K |
| 8 | February 16, 2025 09:30 | February 20, 2025 22:00 | 4d 12h | 1,634 | 14K |
| 9 | February 8, 2025 17:00 | February 8, 2025 21:15 | 4h 15m | 1,439 | 2,121 |
| 10 | January 8, 2025 21:00 | January 9, 2025 01:45 | 4h 45m | 1,115 | 561 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 26 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 Washington 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/washington-county