County annual report · FIPS 34029
2016 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 525th 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 Ocean 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 06:45 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 2d 11h | 106,447 | 991K |
| 2 | June 12, 2016 09:30 | June 13, 2016 04:45 | 19h 15m | 36,112 | 43K |
| 3 | June 8, 2016 12:30 | June 12, 2016 02:00 | 3d 13h | 18,366 | 62K |
| 4 | June 14, 2016 03:00 | June 14, 2016 23:45 | 20h 45m | 17,986 | 5,072 |
| 5 | June 30, 2016 12:30 | July 2, 2016 06:30 | 1d 18h | 17,158 | 40K |
| 6 | August 17, 2016 21:15 | August 20, 2016 08:15 | 2d 11h | 14,360 | 28K |
| 7 | March 9, 2016 17:30 | March 10, 2016 04:30 | 11h | 14,356 | 9,197 |
| 8 | June 19, 2016 17:45 | June 19, 2016 22:45 | 5h | 12,693 | 3,225 |
| 9 | July 18, 2016 06:00 | July 19, 2016 07:15 | 1d 1h | 11,894 | 21K |
| 10 | December 1, 2016 01:15 | December 1, 2016 21:00 | 19h 45m | 11,858 | 17K |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 300 reached 100+ customers, 125 reached 1,000+ customers, 11 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2016 | 3.8 hrs | 1.65 | 2.5 hrs | 1.41 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2016 | 4.1 hrs | 1.48 | 1.6 hrs | 1.09 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county