Power Outages in Bergen County, NJ
No live outage feed is available for Bergen County, NJ yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 1.0 hours.
Bergen County, NJ is served by local tracked utilities.
Bergen County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
No active NWS alerts for Bergen County right now.
Bergen County has been under 157 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Severe Thunderstorm Watch on September 1, 2026.
- Flash Flood Warning ×32
- Flood Advisory ×24
- Flood Watch ×20
- Heat Advisory ×17
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning ×17
- Special Weather Statement ×16
Hardest-hit cities in Bergen County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Hackensackno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Bergen County went about 1.0 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 140,979 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 140,979 customers out) · decade average 3.3 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 560 | 93,114 | 1.5 |
| 2016 | 488 | 16,906 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 435 | 7,313 | 1.3 |
| 2018 | 290 | 45,405 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 408 | 5,294 | 1.1 |
| 2020 | 358 | 140,979 | 19.7 |
| 2021 | 372 | 12,828 | 1.7 |
| 2022 | 483 | 8,486 | 1.1 |
| 2023 | 511 | 11,102 | 1.1 |
| 2024 | 320 | 7,195 | 1.6 |
| 2025 | 364 | 7,181 | 1.0 |
Very High high winds exposure · 3.3 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in Bergen County: FAQ
- How often does Bergen County, NJ lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Bergen County, NJ logged 364 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 1.0 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Bergen County, NJ?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 140,979 customers without power, beginning August 3, 2020 and lasting about 20d.
- Is there a power outage in Bergen County, NJ right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Bergen County, NJ. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Hackensack. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the Bergen County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Bergen County (showing 40 of 66).
07010, 07020, 07022, 07024, 07026, 07031, 07057, 07070, 07071, 07072, 07073, 07074, 07075, 07401, 07407, 07410, 07417, 07423, 07430, 07432, 07436, 07446, 07450, 07452, 07458, 07463, 07481, 07601, 07603, 07604, 07605, 07606, 07607, 07608, 07620, 07621, 07624, 07626, 07627, 07628
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/34003 and /api/v1/counties/34003/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of New Jersey customers).