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2017 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 5.0 hours, a total of 183K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 961st 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 Salem 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 | March 14, 2017 07:00 | March 17, 2017 01:00 | 2d 18h | 9,861 | 96K |
| 2 | May 24, 2017 16:45 | May 24, 2017 17:00 | 15m | 3,978 | 995 |
| 3 | September 25, 2017 12:30 | September 25, 2017 16:45 | 4h 15m | 3,489 | 4,569 |
| 4 | June 24, 2017 10:30 | June 25, 2017 03:00 | 16h 30m | 2,585 | 4,130 |
| 5 | February 9, 2017 18:30 | February 10, 2017 00:45 | 6h 15m | 2,536 | 6,136 |
| 6 | January 23, 2017 12:15 | January 25, 2017 02:45 | 1d 14h | 2,331 | 8,244 |
| 7 | May 24, 2017 13:30 | May 24, 2017 13:45 | 15m | 1,971 | 493 |
| 8 | April 30, 2017 05:15 | April 30, 2017 09:00 | 3h 45m | 1,970 | 5,908 |
| 9 | December 15, 2017 15:30 | December 15, 2017 15:45 | 15m | 1,936 | 484 |
| 10 | June 19, 2017 18:00 | June 20, 2017 21:15 | 1d 3h | 1,805 | 2,525 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 66 reached 100+ customers, 18 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 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 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2017 | 1.9 hrs | 1.09 | 66 min | 0.87 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/salem-county