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2016 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 713K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 20th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1450th 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 Bergen 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 | April 26, 2016 05:30 | April 26, 2016 06:45 | 1h 15m | 16,906 | 21K |
| 2 | May 31, 2016 12:45 | June 3, 2016 09:30 | 2d 20h | 9,502 | 4,077 |
| 3 | February 23, 2016 15:15 | February 28, 2016 01:15 | 4d 10h | 9,182 | 57K |
| 4 | January 15, 2016 09:00 | January 15, 2016 10:30 | 1h 30m | 8,379 | 11K |
| 5 | May 17, 2016 07:15 | May 17, 2016 08:15 | 1h | 8,353 | 8,353 |
| 6 | March 8, 2016 18:15 | March 9, 2016 09:00 | 14h 45m | 7,153 | 5,089 |
| 7 | May 24, 2016 13:45 | May 25, 2016 06:45 | 17h | 7,097 | 9,024 |
| 8 | February 15, 2016 13:00 | February 19, 2016 03:00 | 3d 14h | 6,300 | 36K |
| 9 | May 9, 2016 13:15 | May 11, 2016 07:15 | 1d 18h | 6,209 | 3,487 |
| 10 | April 11, 2016 07:00 | April 11, 2016 07:15 | 15m | 6,183 | 1,546 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 226 reached 100+ customers, 108 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 Bergen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2016 | 69 min | 0.85 | 50 min | 0.75 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Park Ridge - (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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 418,357 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. Bergen County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bergen 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/bergen-county