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2018 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.9 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1059th 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 Bergen 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 6, 2018 03:15 | March 21, 2018 13:00 | 15d 9h | 45,405 | 1.2M |
| 2 | May 14, 2018 11:45 | May 20, 2018 01:00 | 5d 13h | 19,656 | 192K |
| 3 | January 17, 2018 12:30 | January 20, 2018 03:45 | 2d 15h | 13,525 | 4,200 |
| 4 | April 3, 2018 07:15 | April 3, 2018 08:45 | 1h 30m | 10,181 | 5,897 |
| 5 | March 2, 2018 12:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 12h | 8,643 | 121K |
| 6 | January 11, 2018 12:00 | January 17, 2018 03:30 | 5d 15h | 7,983 | 57K |
| 7 | May 20, 2018 04:30 | May 22, 2018 05:00 | 2d | 5,682 | 14K |
| 8 | June 20, 2018 05:30 | July 9, 2018 05:30 | 19d | 5,672 | 56K |
| 9 | July 16, 2018 11:15 | July 18, 2018 23:15 | 2d 12h | 5,536 | 17K |
| 10 | August 30, 2018 12:00 | September 2, 2018 01:15 | 2d 13h | 5,004 | 5,554 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 128 reached 100+ customers, 72 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2018 | 3.0 hrs | 1.08 | 55 min | 0.79 |
| 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 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2018; 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, 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/bergen-county