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2019 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 451K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2459th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Bergen County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 13, 2019 23:30 | July 27, 2019 05:00 | 13d 5h | 5,294 | 39K |
| 2 | October 16, 2019 12:45 | October 21, 2019 02:45 | 4d 14h | 5,225 | 30K |
| 3 | October 13, 2019 11:45 | October 13, 2019 18:45 | 7h | 5,092 | 2,879 |
| 4 | October 3, 2019 09:00 | October 4, 2019 03:45 | 18h 45m | 4,495 | 9,914 |
| 5 | June 30, 2019 13:15 | July 2, 2019 07:00 | 1d 17h | 4,306 | 18K |
| 6 | October 3, 2019 06:45 | October 3, 2019 07:00 | 15m | 3,768 | 942 |
| 7 | October 7, 2019 11:30 | October 7, 2019 22:30 | 11h | 3,737 | 5,603 |
| 8 | June 24, 2019 10:45 | June 26, 2019 10:45 | 2d | 3,658 | 5,128 |
| 9 | June 6, 2019 10:30 | June 7, 2019 03:00 | 16h 30m | 3,539 | 3,011 |
| 10 | May 12, 2019 10:30 | May 14, 2019 03:15 | 1d 16h | 3,247 | 9,015 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 174 reached 100+ customers, 64 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Bergen County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2019, 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Park Ridge - (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 98% of New Jersey's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 418,357 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. Bergen County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bergen County, NJ annual power outage report, 2019, 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/2019/new-jersey/bergen-county