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2016 Atlantic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Atlantic County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.4 hours, a total of 409K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1172nd of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Atlantic County, 2016
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, 2016 06:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 11h | 12,161 | 117K |
| 2 | September 1, 2016 02:15 | September 2, 2016 17:00 | 1d 14h | 9,508 | 17K |
| 3 | February 24, 2016 15:30 | February 26, 2016 09:45 | 1d 18h | 5,412 | 31K |
| 4 | June 8, 2016 10:15 | June 10, 2016 01:00 | 1d 14h | 4,367 | 20K |
| 5 | February 3, 2016 21:00 | February 5, 2016 21:45 | 2d | 4,179 | 3,176 |
| 6 | July 23, 2016 08:00 | July 24, 2016 16:30 | 1d 8h | 3,638 | 7,267 |
| 7 | March 5, 2016 23:15 | March 6, 2016 21:00 | 21h 45m | 3,586 | 1,685 |
| 8 | January 19, 2016 11:15 | January 20, 2016 11:30 | 1d | 3,565 | 21K |
| 9 | April 3, 2016 03:15 | April 4, 2016 21:15 | 1d 18h | 3,205 | 21K |
| 10 | May 28, 2016 12:30 | May 29, 2016 02:15 | 13h 45m | 2,851 | 5,888 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 156 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Atlantic County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 1.48 | 1.6 hrs | 1.09 |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 167,221 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. Atlantic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Atlantic County, NJ annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/new-jersey/atlantic-county