Power outages in Providence, RI
Live outages for Providence and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Providence has 195,310 residents.
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ProvidenceProvidence County
Outage history in Providence County, which includes Providence
2014–2025 recordProvidence County averaged 20 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Rhode Island counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 22. Half were over within 60 minutes; the longest lasted 17 hours, starting December 19, 2025.
The largest on record began August 4, 2020, with 84,135 customers out at once.
Outages are most common in July.
20significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.45 minutestypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.3.9 dayslongest on record (October 2017)
84,135most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| August 4, 2020 | 84,135 | 2.3 days | 1,809,902 |
| October 30, 2017 | 67,995 | 3.9 days | 2,600,696 |
| March 2, 2018 | 64,587 | 3 days | 1,826,535 |
| August 4, 2015 | 49,763 | 1.7 days | 638,451 |
| October 7, 2020 | 33,212 | 22 hours | 265,031 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.