County annual report · FIPS 34031
2016 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.5 hours, a total of 542K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 709th 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 Passaic 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 | February 7, 2016 16:15 | February 7, 2016 17:15 | 1h | 9,782 | 8,553 |
| 2 | February 24, 2016 16:15 | February 28, 2016 03:15 | 3d 11h | 9,304 | 42K |
| 3 | April 3, 2016 05:30 | April 7, 2016 09:00 | 4d 3h | 7,675 | 44K |
| 4 | August 12, 2016 20:45 | August 18, 2016 01:15 | 5d 4h | 6,432 | 39K |
| 5 | July 20, 2016 18:15 | July 20, 2016 18:30 | 15m | 6,196 | 1,549 |
| 6 | June 12, 2016 14:45 | June 13, 2016 13:30 | 22h 45m | 5,916 | 66K |
| 7 | April 12, 2016 11:00 | April 12, 2016 13:30 | 2h 30m | 5,393 | 2,700 |
| 8 | January 10, 2016 06:15 | January 14, 2016 06:00 | 3d 23h | 4,870 | 20K |
| 9 | July 17, 2016 14:15 | July 17, 2016 21:00 | 6h 45m | 4,490 | 6,360 |
| 10 | November 11, 2016 06:30 | November 12, 2016 03:00 | 20h 30m | 3,949 | 3,825 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 198 reached 100+ customers, 107 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 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 |
| 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 2016; 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, 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/passaic-county