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2017 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.8 hours, a total of 331K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1400th 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 Passaic 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 | June 15, 2017 08:15 | June 17, 2017 10:15 | 2d 2h | 8,916 | 12K |
| 2 | April 24, 2017 09:15 | April 24, 2017 10:00 | 45m | 8,130 | 6,098 |
| 3 | March 31, 2017 16:30 | April 1, 2017 18:15 | 1d 1h | 7,380 | 13K |
| 4 | June 1, 2017 16:15 | June 2, 2017 07:45 | 15h 30m | 5,706 | 3,052 |
| 5 | March 24, 2017 05:45 | March 24, 2017 06:15 | 30m | 5,556 | 2,778 |
| 6 | January 4, 2017 23:30 | January 6, 2017 03:45 | 1d 4h | 5,472 | 4,237 |
| 7 | October 23, 2017 16:00 | October 25, 2017 04:45 | 1d 12h | 5,096 | 4,441 |
| 8 | April 2, 2017 11:00 | April 4, 2017 17:15 | 2d 6h | 5,043 | 18K |
| 9 | August 6, 2017 11:15 | August 6, 2017 14:15 | 3h | 4,489 | 6,742 |
| 10 | October 11, 2017 21:45 | October 13, 2017 14:00 | 1d 16h | 4,273 | 3,634 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 156 reached 100+ customers, 70 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 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 |
| 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 2017; 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, 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/passaic-county