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Water Heater Repair in Rhode Island

Across the 41 Rhode Island towns we route calls in, 22 lead on gas and 19 on fuel oil. Which one your own town leans towards decides what can go wrong with the tank in your basement.

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Across the 41 Rhode Island towns covered here, 22 lead on gas. Weighted by housing units the split runs 60% gas, 12% electricity and 26% fuel oil, and which way a town leans decides which water heater faults are possible in it.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040.

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What Rhode Island burns

Weighted across 361,903 occupied housing units in the areas we cover:

Fuel	Share of households
Gas — mains and bottled	60%
Electricity	12%
Fuel oil and kerosene	26%
Everything else	2%

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25040 (house heating fuel), 2023 release. B25040 counts what heats the house, which predicts but does not measure what heats the water.

The largest towns we route

Town	Leads on	Share	Households
Providence	Gas	74%	82,620
Warwick	Gas	66%	33,304
Pawtucket	Gas	73%	31,050
Cranston	Gas	69%	19,415
Woonsocket	Gas	67%	17,472
West Warwick	Gas	47%	14,350
Cumberland	Gas	59%	14,102
Coventry	Fuel Oil	48%	13,667

Checking a plumber in Rhode Island

Rhode Island licenses are issued by the Rhode Island Division of Professional Regulation, Department of Labor and Training, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Towns we route in Rhode Island

Albion gas · 78% of households
Bristol gas · 56% of households
Carolina fuel oil · 77% of households
Chepachet fuel oil · 67% of households
Coventry fuel oil · 48% of households
Cranston gas · 69% of households
Cumberland gas · 59% of households
East Greenwich gas · 55% of households
East Providence gas · 65% of households
Exeter fuel oil · 58% of households
Foster fuel oil · 68% of households
Glendale fuel oil · 90% of households
Greene fuel oil · 72% of households
Greenville fuel oil · 45% of households
Hope fuel oil · 75% of households
Hope Valley fuel oil · 64% of households
Jamestown fuel oil · 56% of households
Johnston gas · 62% of households
Lincoln gas · 65% of households
Manville gas · 57% of households
Mapleville fuel oil · 79% of households
Newport gas · 62% of households
North Kingstown gas · 61% of households
North Providence gas · 71% of households
North Scituate fuel oil · 81% of households
North Smithfield fuel oil · 58% of households
Pascoag fuel oil · 67% of households
Pawtucket gas · 73% of households
Portsmouth fuel oil · 52% of households
Providence gas · 74% of households
Saunderstown gas · 50% of households
Slatersville gas · 53% of households
Smithfield gas · 53% of households
Warren gas · 58% of households
Warwick gas · 66% of households
West Greenwich fuel oil · 49% of households
West Kingston fuel oil · 63% of households
West Warwick gas · 47% of households
Westerly gas · 40% of households
Woonsocket gas · 67% of households
Wyoming fuel oil · 72% of households

Know the fuel and the symptom? That is most of the call.Gas and electric heaters fail in almost entirely different ways, so saying which you have gets you to the right person faster. We route the call and never charge you for it. Water heaters are what we write about; the number goes further.

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