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2016 Belknap County, NH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Belknap County, NH went without power for an average of 2.6 hours, a total of 83K customer-hours (New Hampshire average 3.2 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 10 New Hampshire counties and 1124th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NH, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Hampshire customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Belknap County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 23, 2016 21:30 | July 25, 2016 09:45 | 1d 12h | 3,531 | 31K |
| 2 | December 16, 2016 04:45 | December 16, 2016 06:00 | 1h 15m | 2,294 | 2,868 |
| 3 | September 25, 2016 14:15 | September 26, 2016 00:00 | 9h 45m | 2,048 | 3,088 |
| 4 | February 16, 2016 20:15 | February 16, 2016 22:30 | 2h 15m | 1,736 | 3,387 |
| 5 | February 16, 2016 23:15 | February 17, 2016 05:45 | 6h 30m | 1,631 | 1,678 |
| 6 | October 9, 2016 14:30 | October 9, 2016 16:00 | 1h 30m | 1,542 | 397 |
| 7 | March 17, 2016 19:15 | March 18, 2016 10:45 | 15h 30m | 1,491 | 6,007 |
| 8 | April 1, 2016 21:45 | April 1, 2016 23:45 | 2h | 1,136 | 1,743 |
| 9 | September 11, 2016 13:45 | September 12, 2016 02:00 | 12h 15m | 1,082 | 4,611 |
| 10 | February 5, 2016 15:30 | February 5, 2016 16:45 | 1h 15m | 1,005 | 1,006 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 48 reached 100+ customers, 11 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Belknap County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Co of NH | 2016 | 3.3 hrs | 1.57 | 2.3 hrs | 1.39 |
| New Hampshire Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Wolfeboro - (NH) | - | - | - | - | - |
| New Hampton Village Precinct | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of New Hampshire's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 32,434 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Belknap County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Belknap County, NH annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/new-hampshire/belknap-county