Newport County, Rhode Island Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Newport County, Rhode Island had 11 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.58 times the US outage time per person and 0.49 times the Rhode Island rate. It ranks 5 of 5 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.2major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

75 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 6,811 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 75.2 hours.

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Outage impact by year

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

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	63,785	27	0
2016	87,934	35	1
2017	100,764	25	1
2018	225,469	26	2
2019	74,255	33	1
2020	177,952	39	2
2021	261,668	34	4
2022	55,643	21	0
2023	19,669	19	0

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
Mar 2, 2018	75.2	6,811	163,641
Aug 22, 2021	26.0	11,905	81,881
Oct 30, 2017	60.2	3,869	76,734
Oct 27, 2021	10.2	8,644	55,878
Feb 7, 2020	27.8	6,156	52,688

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.