Power Outages in Newport County, RI
No live outage feed is available for Newport County, RI yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.6 hours.
Newport County, RI is served by local tracked utilities.
Newport County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Rip Current StatementMODERATE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
Newport County has been under 13 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Rip Current Statement on July 19, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×6
- Heat Advisory ×3
- Rip Current Statement ×3
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Newport County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Newport County went about 1.6 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 15,344 customers.
Worst year here was 2021 (peak 11,905 customers out) · decade average 1.9 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 373 | 8,947 | 1.2 |
| 2016 | 408 | 4,739 | 1.6 |
| 2017 | 356 | 7,927 | 2.1 |
| 2018 | 430 | 6,811 | 3.9 |
| 2019 | 393 | 7,781 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 405 | 11,055 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 414 | 11,905 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 425 | 7,860 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 413 | 3,305 | 0.5 |
| 2024 | 453 | 3,050 | 0.6 |
| 2025 | 682 | 15,344 | 1.6 |
Relatively Low hurricanes exposure · 1.9 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Newport County: FAQ
- How often does Newport County, RI lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Newport County, RI logged 682 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.6 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Newport County, RI?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 15,344 customers without power, beginning December 19, 2025 and lasting about 1d 4h.
- Is there a power outage in Newport County, RI right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Newport County, RI. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Newport County.
02835, 02837, 02840, 02841, 02842, 02871, 02872, 02878
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/44005 and /api/v1/counties/44005/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Rhode Island customers).