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2018 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 12.4 hours, a total of 455K customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 444th 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 Salem 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 19:45 | March 28, 2018 18:30 | 7d 22h | 10,232 | 296K |
| 2 | May 25, 2018 14:15 | May 25, 2018 19:45 | 5h 30m | 4,809 | 1,288 |
| 3 | March 2, 2018 15:30 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 9h | 4,458 | 94K |
| 4 | February 26, 2018 14:15 | February 26, 2018 15:15 | 1h | 4,062 | 2,089 |
| 5 | January 12, 2018 13:00 | January 12, 2018 16:00 | 3h | 3,977 | 3,363 |
| 6 | December 14, 2018 13:45 | December 14, 2018 16:15 | 2h 30m | 3,416 | 902 |
| 7 | April 15, 2018 17:45 | April 15, 2018 23:00 | 5h 15m | 2,509 | 4,328 |
| 8 | June 17, 2018 14:00 | June 17, 2018 15:00 | 1h | 2,434 | 2,434 |
| 9 | January 29, 2018 23:45 | January 30, 2018 00:00 | 15m | 2,371 | 593 |
| 10 | July 16, 2018 12:15 | July 17, 2018 00:30 | 12h 15m | 2,069 | 1,307 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 67 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county