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2017 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.3 hours, a total of 524K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1937th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bergen County, 2017
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 13, 2017 12:15 | April 14, 2017 08:30 | 20h 15m | 7,313 | 11K |
| 2 | November 29, 2017 18:00 | December 10, 2017 03:30 | 10d 9h | 7,142 | 8,642 |
| 3 | May 25, 2017 09:30 | May 27, 2017 01:00 | 1d 15h | 6,877 | 13K |
| 4 | September 19, 2017 01:30 | September 22, 2017 03:45 | 3d 2h | 6,624 | 3,476 |
| 5 | November 28, 2017 09:00 | November 28, 2017 09:30 | 30m | 5,244 | 2,622 |
| 6 | July 22, 2017 20:30 | July 24, 2017 03:45 | 1d 7h | 5,233 | 4,979 |
| 7 | May 22, 2017 02:15 | May 23, 2017 23:15 | 1d 21h | 5,083 | 14K |
| 8 | June 1, 2017 17:45 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 14h | 4,943 | 3,381 |
| 9 | April 12, 2017 09:00 | April 13, 2017 09:30 | 1d | 4,501 | 4,247 |
| 10 | January 14, 2017 04:15 | January 14, 2017 08:45 | 4h 30m | 4,494 | 3,374 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 189 reached 100+ customers, 93 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 Bergen County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2017, 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 | 2017 | 50 min | 0.75 | 45 min | 0.73 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/new-jersey/bergen-county