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2018 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 67.9 hours, a total of 7.6M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 96th 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 Morris 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 19, 2018 07:00 | 13d 3h | 60,709 | 3.2M |
| 2 | March 2, 2018 04:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 21h | 55,197 | 2.8M |
| 3 | May 15, 2018 12:00 | May 20, 2018 08:15 | 4d 20h | 31,039 | 751K |
| 4 | January 11, 2018 17:15 | January 14, 2018 09:30 | 2d 16h | 16,407 | 93K |
| 5 | May 5, 2018 09:30 | May 6, 2018 03:15 | 17h 45m | 10,222 | 6,138 |
| 6 | August 2, 2018 12:00 | August 15, 2018 04:45 | 12d 16h | 8,660 | 111K |
| 7 | August 22, 2018 04:15 | August 23, 2018 02:00 | 21h 45m | 8,324 | 4,627 |
| 8 | June 9, 2018 12:00 | June 10, 2018 04:30 | 16h 30m | 5,879 | 3,998 |
| 9 | July 1, 2018 11:45 | July 8, 2018 07:30 | 6d 19h | 5,128 | 48K |
| 10 | April 12, 2018 19:15 | April 17, 2018 10:00 | 4d 14h | 4,468 | 33K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 182 reached 100+ customers, 66 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2018 | 21.5 hrs | 2.17 | 2.7 hrs | 1.36 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2018 | 28 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 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2018; 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, 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/morris-county