Cheshire County, New Hampshire Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cheshire County, New Hampshire had 40 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.62 times the US outage time per person and 1.28 times the New Hampshire rate. It ranks 5 of 10 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.4major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Janhardest months

March and January made up 44% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 14, 2023, reached 19,245 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New Hampshire counties

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	61,678	56	1
2016	106,592	82	1
2017	234,246	64	5
2018	364,088	83	6
2019	211,522	27	3
2020	306,574	55	7
2021	153,667	61	6
2022	204,007	67	5
2023	1,138,795	54	6

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 14, 2023	81.0	19,245	705,429
Jan 23, 2023	68.5	11,380	340,657
Aug 4, 2020	50.8	9,447	143,970
Jun 18, 2018	27.2	13,115	143,590
Oct 17, 2019	46.8	7,038	134,636

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.