Power outages in Rhode Island
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
No significant county-wide outages are currently reported in Rhode Island.
Missing data is not the same as zero outages — not every utility reports into these sources.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Rhode Island counties (5)
Utility coverage in Rhode Island
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Rhode Island.
Historical outage patterns in Rhode Island
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 2,764 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Rhode Island between 2014 and 2025 across all 5 counties — 54 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (31% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2020.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~84,135 customers out in Providence County in August 2020, restored after about 2.2 days.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Rhode Island?
Electric utilities we track in Rhode Island include Rhode Island Energy. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.