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2018 Atlantic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Atlantic County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.2 hours, a total of 540K customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1437th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Atlantic County, 2018
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 21, 2018 18:30 | March 25, 2018 04:45 | 3d 10h | 10,573 | 273K |
| 2 | May 18, 2018 16:30 | May 18, 2018 18:30 | 2h | 7,399 | 3,720 |
| 3 | July 10, 2018 12:15 | July 10, 2018 18:45 | 6h 30m | 5,398 | 4,057 |
| 4 | March 7, 2018 16:30 | March 10, 2018 06:00 | 2d 13h | 5,084 | 38K |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 16:15 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 8h | 4,883 | 64K |
| 6 | April 13, 2018 14:00 | April 16, 2018 22:15 | 3d 8h | 4,716 | 12K |
| 7 | January 29, 2018 16:45 | January 29, 2018 22:30 | 5h 45m | 3,966 | 1,863 |
| 8 | January 15, 2018 19:00 | January 16, 2018 01:15 | 6h 15m | 3,878 | 6,769 |
| 9 | January 17, 2018 22:30 | January 18, 2018 02:00 | 3h 30m | 3,735 | 976 |
| 10 | August 23, 2018 10:45 | August 23, 2018 20:00 | 9h 15m | 3,476 | 5,215 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 116 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 Atlantic County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2018, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 76 min | 0.90 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2018; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 167,221 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. Atlantic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Atlantic County, NJ annual power outage report, 2018, 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/2018/new-jersey/atlantic-county