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2018 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 74.7 hours, a total of 3.6M customer-hours (New Jersey average 8.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 83rd 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 Sussex 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 2, 2018 13:45 | March 6, 2018 01:00 | 3d 11h | 26,925 | 1.7M |
| 2 | May 15, 2018 17:30 | May 21, 2018 02:45 | 5d 9h | 25,899 | 849K |
| 3 | March 6, 2018 03:15 | March 13, 2018 23:30 | 7d 20h | 12,429 | 604K |
| 4 | November 28, 2018 20:15 | November 29, 2018 00:15 | 4h | 11,814 | 7,107 |
| 5 | August 29, 2018 13:00 | August 29, 2018 18:00 | 5h | 8,286 | 2,088 |
| 6 | July 4, 2018 17:15 | July 5, 2018 02:30 | 9h 15m | 6,804 | 2,334 |
| 7 | August 24, 2018 13:00 | August 25, 2018 06:00 | 17h | 5,640 | 12K |
| 8 | September 18, 2018 17:30 | September 19, 2018 22:15 | 1d 4h | 4,914 | 6,490 |
| 9 | January 12, 2018 04:15 | January 14, 2018 23:45 | 2d 19h | 4,093 | 38K |
| 10 | August 21, 2018 23:15 | August 22, 2018 21:30 | 22h 15m | 3,319 | 2,077 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 143 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county