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2018 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 9.9 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 556th 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 Passaic 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 02:00 | 12d 22h | 17,286 | 536K |
| 2 | May 2, 2018 13:00 | May 22, 2018 11:15 | 19d 22h | 14,075 | 139K |
| 3 | January 10, 2018 11:45 | January 14, 2018 05:45 | 3d 18h | 9,096 | 53K |
| 4 | November 19, 2018 15:30 | November 21, 2018 19:30 | 2d 4h | 7,576 | 3,714 |
| 5 | February 5, 2018 09:30 | February 8, 2018 05:45 | 2d 20h | 6,290 | 6,881 |
| 6 | November 6, 2018 13:00 | November 6, 2018 15:45 | 2h 45m | 6,034 | 1,512 |
| 7 | March 2, 2018 14:00 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 11h | 5,397 | 119K |
| 8 | September 6, 2018 05:00 | September 9, 2018 02:45 | 2d 21h | 4,685 | 24K |
| 9 | May 23, 2018 14:00 | May 24, 2018 23:15 | 1d 9h | 4,629 | 1,949 |
| 10 | August 17, 2018 12:45 | August 18, 2018 11:00 | 22h 15m | 4,583 | 5,576 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 137 reached 100+ customers, 70 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 Passaic 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 119,763 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. Passaic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Passaic 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/passaic-county