Washington County, Rhode Island Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Washington County, Rhode Island had 35 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.76 times the US outage time per person and 2.34 times the Rhode Island rate. It ranks 1 of 5 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.9major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

115 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Aughardest months

October and August made up 62% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 22, 2021, reached 52,955 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 68.2 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated Rhode Island counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	370,182	54	3
2016	280,291	52	4
2017	1,553,608	52	3
2018	1,448,278	69	4
2019	855,306	53	4
2020	870,771	66	5
2021	2,272,466	75	7
2022	143,067	57	2
2023	128,120	53	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 22, 2021	68.2	52,955	1,514,525
Oct 30, 2017	114.8	31,357	1,440,014
Mar 2, 2018	79.2	37,375	1,173,662
Oct 17, 2019	63.5	28,220	567,670
Aug 4, 2020	68.0	23,070	416,547

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.