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2016 Hillsborough County, NH Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Hillsborough County, NH went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 569K customer-hours (New Hampshire average 3.2 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 10 New Hampshire counties and 1018th 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 Hillsborough 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 22:00 | July 26, 2016 00:30 | 2d 2h | 20,735 | 164K |
| 2 | May 15, 2016 14:30 | May 15, 2016 21:45 | 7h 15m | 17,818 | 17K |
| 3 | March 29, 2016 12:00 | March 29, 2016 21:45 | 9h 45m | 16,193 | 6,567 |
| 4 | July 18, 2016 15:15 | July 19, 2016 08:45 | 17h 30m | 7,185 | 16K |
| 5 | September 11, 2016 13:45 | September 12, 2016 05:00 | 15h 15m | 6,467 | 42K |
| 6 | March 1, 2016 06:15 | March 1, 2016 19:45 | 13h 30m | 4,645 | 16K |
| 7 | September 6, 2016 12:30 | September 6, 2016 19:15 | 6h 45m | 4,622 | 3,077 |
| 8 | March 31, 2016 14:30 | March 31, 2016 23:45 | 9h 15m | 4,262 | 5,330 |
| 9 | January 21, 2016 12:30 | January 21, 2016 19:45 | 7h 15m | 4,137 | 1,933 |
| 10 | November 11, 2016 16:45 | November 12, 2016 08:15 | 15h 30m | 3,863 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 219 reached 100+ customers, 56 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Hillsborough 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 |
| Liberty Utilities (Granite State Electri | 2016 | 2.7 hrs | 1.74 | 2.3 hrs | 1.67 |
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 ÷ 196,402 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. Hillsborough County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Hillsborough 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/hillsborough-county