County annual report · FIPS 33017
2023 Strafford County, NH Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Strafford County, NH went without power for an average of 8.6 hours, a total of 773K customer-hours (New Hampshire average 9.5 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 10 New Hampshire counties and 963rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NH, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Hampshire customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Strafford County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 23, 2023 02:15 | January 27, 2023 04:15 | 4d 2h | 20,731 | 571K |
| 2 | May 28, 2023 21:15 | May 29, 2023 02:30 | 5h 15m | 20,525 | 6,152 |
| 3 | December 18, 2023 08:30 | December 20, 2023 03:15 | 1d 18h | 5,392 | 51K |
| 4 | March 14, 2023 12:30 | March 16, 2023 20:15 | 2d 7h | 5,113 | 73K |
| 5 | July 2, 2023 20:45 | July 3, 2023 00:45 | 4h | 2,591 | 8,182 |
| 6 | March 17, 2023 20:15 | March 17, 2023 21:15 | 1h | 2,074 | 1,556 |
| 7 | April 12, 2023 16:30 | April 12, 2023 22:15 | 5h 45m | 1,701 | 4,242 |
| 8 | January 20, 2023 06:30 | January 22, 2023 00:00 | 1d 17h | 1,403 | 8,452 |
| 9 | April 7, 2023 16:45 | April 7, 2023 20:15 | 3h 30m | 1,401 | 4,904 |
| 10 | May 1, 2023 15:00 | May 1, 2023 18:15 | 3h 15m | 1,083 | 1,789 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 68 reached 100+ customers, 10 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Strafford County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 11.1 hrs | 1.50 | 84 min | 0.74 |
| New Hampshire Elec Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 89,738 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. Strafford County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Strafford County, NH annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/new-hampshire/strafford-county