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2015 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 445K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 702nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Morris County, 2015
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 12, 2015 07:45 | August 12, 2015 08:15 | 30m | 12,920 | 5,155 |
| 2 | September 9, 2015 18:15 | September 11, 2015 15:15 | 1d 21h | 10,126 | 29K |
| 3 | October 28, 2015 14:30 | October 30, 2015 07:30 | 1d 17h | 10,052 | 32K |
| 4 | December 29, 2015 10:30 | December 30, 2015 00:15 | 13h 45m | 7,066 | 18K |
| 5 | November 22, 2015 12:30 | November 22, 2015 22:00 | 9h 30m | 6,826 | 10K |
| 6 | August 31, 2015 19:00 | September 1, 2015 06:00 | 11h | 5,592 | 1,987 |
| 7 | August 12, 2015 04:45 | August 12, 2015 05:00 | 15m | 5,244 | 1,311 |
| 8 | August 27, 2015 11:00 | August 28, 2015 04:00 | 17h | 5,224 | 2,878 |
| 9 | December 1, 2015 05:30 | December 2, 2015 11:00 | 1d 5h | 4,888 | 12K |
| 10 | October 30, 2015 12:30 | October 30, 2015 20:00 | 7h 30m | 4,410 | 8,719 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 130 reached 100+ customers, 51 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Morris County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, 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 Elec & Gas Co | 2015 | 81 min | 0.69 | 38 min | 0.64 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2015 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Butler - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Jersey's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 112,181 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. Morris County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morris County, NJ annual power outage report, 2015, 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/2015/new-jersey/morris-county