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2015 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.5 hours, a total of 297K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.5 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1067th 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 Passaic 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 | April 24, 2015 13:45 | April 25, 2015 02:45 | 13h | 9,934 | 13K |
| 2 | March 4, 2015 01:45 | March 5, 2015 23:45 | 1d 22h | 6,119 | 13K |
| 3 | June 19, 2015 15:15 | June 20, 2015 22:45 | 1d 7h | 5,270 | 14K |
| 4 | September 23, 2015 12:45 | September 23, 2015 15:15 | 2h 30m | 4,484 | 4,943 |
| 5 | November 14, 2015 17:00 | November 14, 2015 21:00 | 4h | 4,209 | 3,828 |
| 6 | May 27, 2015 14:00 | May 28, 2015 15:15 | 1d 1h | 4,080 | 1,643 |
| 7 | July 25, 2015 00:45 | July 25, 2015 19:30 | 18h 45m | 4,063 | 1,170 |
| 8 | August 5, 2015 04:30 | August 7, 2015 16:00 | 2d 11h | 4,059 | 3,065 |
| 9 | January 26, 2015 07:00 | January 26, 2015 10:00 | 3h | 3,744 | 9,301 |
| 10 | December 28, 2015 09:15 | December 29, 2015 03:00 | 17h 45m | 3,583 | 3,557 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 183 reached 100+ customers, 89 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 Passaic 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Butler - (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 ÷ 119,763 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. Passaic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Passaic 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/passaic-county