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2020 Belknap County, NH Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Belknap County, NH went without power for an average of 14.0 hours, a total of 454K customer-hours (New Hampshire average 7.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 10 New Hampshire counties and 596th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NH, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Hampshire customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Belknap County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 20:45 | August 7, 2020 23:30 | 3d 2h | 9,254 | 130K |
| 2 | December 5, 2020 17:45 | December 9, 2020 21:30 | 4d 3h | 9,150 | 201K |
| 3 | September 30, 2020 06:00 | September 30, 2020 23:45 | 17h 45m | 6,306 | 4,619 |
| 4 | February 1, 2020 16:45 | February 24, 2020 23:00 | 23d 6h | 5,136 | 40K |
| 5 | June 6, 2020 12:15 | June 7, 2020 03:30 | 15h 15m | 4,063 | 5,460 |
| 6 | August 25, 2020 15:00 | August 26, 2020 20:00 | 1d 5h | 2,211 | 2,810 |
| 7 | October 28, 2020 11:30 | October 28, 2020 13:30 | 2h | 1,881 | 947 |
| 8 | December 11, 2020 17:00 | December 11, 2020 21:45 | 4h 45m | 1,863 | 1,412 |
| 9 | October 2, 2020 22:15 | October 3, 2020 07:00 | 8h 45m | 1,838 | 475 |
| 10 | July 14, 2020 00:00 | July 14, 2020 03:00 | 3h | 1,513 | 902 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 77 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 7.7 hrs | 1.49 | 1.6 hrs | 0.81 |
| 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 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/new-hampshire/belknap-county