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2019 Belknap County, NH Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Belknap County, NH went without power for an average of 6.4 hours, a total of 206K customer-hours (New Hampshire average 3.3 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 10 New Hampshire counties and 867th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NH, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Hampshire customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Belknap County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 17, 2019 02:30 | October 20, 2019 14:30 | 3d 12h | 6,569 | 53K |
| 2 | January 9, 2019 11:00 | January 12, 2019 10:45 | 2d 23h | 5,415 | 29K |
| 3 | November 1, 2019 05:15 | November 3, 2019 23:45 | 2d 18h | 4,946 | 30K |
| 4 | February 25, 2019 14:30 | February 28, 2019 18:45 | 3d 4h | 4,068 | 17K |
| 5 | February 8, 2019 19:15 | February 9, 2019 21:00 | 1d 1h | 3,338 | 6,520 |
| 6 | June 29, 2019 23:00 | June 30, 2019 12:00 | 13h | 1,062 | 2,216 |
| 7 | October 26, 2019 02:45 | October 26, 2019 06:30 | 3h 45m | 984 | 1,223 |
| 8 | March 15, 2019 13:00 | March 15, 2019 13:30 | 30m | 949 | 475 |
| 9 | January 24, 2019 19:00 | January 25, 2019 04:45 | 9h 45m | 917 | 561 |
| 10 | April 3, 2019 19:15 | April 7, 2019 10:00 | 3d 14h | 830 | 2,675 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 56 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2019, 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 | 2018 | 6.4 hrs | 1.88 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| 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 99% of New Hampshire's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/new-hampshire/belknap-county