Bristol County, Rhode Island Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bristol County, Rhode Island had 16 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.73 times the US outage time per person and 1.47 times the Rhode Island rate. It ranks 2 of 5 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.8major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

100 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Marhardest months

October and March made up 68% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 15,400 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 69.5 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	118,384	20	3
2016	47,028	11	1
2017	515,069	14	1
2018	601,210	13	1
2019	139,167	13	1
2020	233,877	20	5
2021	179,522	17	2
2022	34,720	7	1
2023	44,189	16	1

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	69.5	15,400	566,470
Oct 30, 2017	100.5	17,119	487,644
Oct 27, 2021	9.5	12,838	91,754
Aug 4, 2020	29.8	5,381	90,137
Nov 30, 2020	13.8	6,989	67,924

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.