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2017 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 471st 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 Morris 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 | October 26, 2017 11:45 | November 1, 2017 04:00 | 5d 16h | 42,494 | 330K |
| 2 | October 24, 2017 11:15 | October 25, 2017 09:15 | 22h | 16,422 | 24K |
| 3 | December 27, 2017 20:30 | December 28, 2017 21:00 | 1d | 15,492 | 15K |
| 4 | June 9, 2017 04:00 | June 10, 2017 05:15 | 1d 1h | 15,380 | 9,166 |
| 5 | July 7, 2017 11:30 | July 8, 2017 11:00 | 23h 30m | 14,152 | 23K |
| 6 | February 12, 2017 14:30 | February 15, 2017 03:15 | 2d 12h | 13,382 | 104K |
| 7 | June 14, 2017 10:30 | June 16, 2017 00:00 | 1d 13h | 9,800 | 9,738 |
| 8 | May 17, 2017 18:45 | May 18, 2017 06:00 | 11h 15m | 9,670 | 4,295 |
| 9 | March 2, 2017 05:45 | March 12, 2017 06:00 | 10d | 9,616 | 42K |
| 10 | July 8, 2017 11:45 | July 9, 2017 06:45 | 19h | 7,496 | 3,437 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 241 reached 100+ customers, 102 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2017 | 2.4 hrs | 1.26 | 2.2 hrs | 1.19 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2017 | 25 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 2017; 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, 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/morris-county