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2018 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.5 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1364th 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 Ocean 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 20, 2018 09:45 | March 25, 2018 06:30 | 4d 20h | 26,645 | 330K |
| 2 | June 29, 2018 08:15 | July 4, 2018 03:45 | 4d 19h | 12,565 | 57K |
| 3 | October 9, 2018 12:00 | October 10, 2018 03:30 | 15h 30m | 9,669 | 14K |
| 4 | October 27, 2018 07:30 | October 28, 2018 07:30 | 1d | 9,386 | 41K |
| 5 | November 15, 2018 14:15 | November 18, 2018 08:15 | 2d 18h | 8,962 | 25K |
| 6 | August 16, 2018 10:30 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 2d | 8,761 | 25K |
| 7 | July 21, 2018 15:00 | July 24, 2018 09:00 | 2d 18h | 6,819 | 54K |
| 8 | May 26, 2018 10:45 | May 28, 2018 02:00 | 1d 15h | 6,057 | 15K |
| 9 | September 9, 2018 11:45 | September 11, 2018 02:30 | 1d 14h | 5,795 | 12K |
| 10 | November 24, 2018 23:45 | November 26, 2018 09:15 | 1d 9h | 5,512 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 205 reached 100+ customers, 98 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2018 | 21.5 hrs | 2.17 | 2.7 hrs | 1.36 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 76 min | 0.90 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county