County annual report · FIPS 34033
2016 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 178K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.0 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 676th 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 Salem 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 | June 5, 2016 22:00 | June 7, 2016 07:30 | 1d 9h | 5,296 | 25K |
| 2 | February 15, 2016 21:45 | February 17, 2016 22:15 | 2d | 4,154 | 16K |
| 3 | June 7, 2016 20:00 | June 11, 2016 11:15 | 3d 15h | 3,677 | 38K |
| 4 | November 10, 2016 00:00 | November 10, 2016 04:00 | 4h | 3,487 | 3,499 |
| 5 | April 3, 2016 03:45 | April 5, 2016 15:00 | 2d 11h | 3,178 | 30K |
| 6 | June 16, 2016 10:15 | June 16, 2016 18:45 | 8h 30m | 3,081 | 2,962 |
| 7 | July 28, 2016 18:30 | July 30, 2016 01:00 | 1d 6h | 2,369 | 979 |
| 8 | September 5, 2016 23:15 | September 6, 2016 00:00 | 45m | 2,366 | 597 |
| 9 | March 3, 2016 22:00 | March 3, 2016 22:15 | 15m | 2,070 | 518 |
| 10 | December 10, 2016 12:30 | December 11, 2016 02:15 | 13h 45m | 2,070 | 4,689 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 80 reached 100+ customers, 21 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county