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2016 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 17.8 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 168th 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 Morris 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 | July 30, 2016 10:00 | August 2, 2016 16:15 | 3d 6h | 49,276 | 170K |
| 2 | April 3, 2016 08:15 | April 6, 2016 06:30 | 2d 22h | 38,502 | 344K |
| 3 | July 14, 2016 12:00 | July 18, 2016 04:00 | 3d 16h | 21,592 | 321K |
| 4 | February 18, 2016 14:00 | March 5, 2016 03:00 | 15d 13h | 19,354 | 84K |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 19:15 | July 12, 2016 02:15 | 3d 7h | 16,110 | 105K |
| 6 | September 14, 2016 19:45 | September 16, 2016 07:45 | 1d 12h | 11,608 | 25K |
| 7 | September 11, 2016 11:45 | September 12, 2016 03:30 | 15h 45m | 10,788 | 8,952 |
| 8 | July 25, 2016 06:45 | July 27, 2016 06:45 | 2d | 10,102 | 52K |
| 9 | June 12, 2016 11:15 | June 14, 2016 03:45 | 1d 16h | 9,848 | 29K |
| 10 | July 20, 2016 13:15 | July 21, 2016 03:00 | 13h 45m | 7,616 | 6,182 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 286 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 8 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 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.65 | 2.5 hrs | 1.41 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2016 | 33 min | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/morris-county