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2019 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.8 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 458th 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 Morris 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 | October 11, 2019 11:45 | October 12, 2019 01:30 | 13h 45m | 14,028 | 6,031 |
| 2 | July 8, 2019 13:00 | July 25, 2019 10:30 | 16d 21h | 13,301 | 89K |
| 3 | May 18, 2019 11:00 | May 30, 2019 08:00 | 11d 21h | 10,583 | 91K |
| 4 | June 7, 2019 11:00 | June 8, 2019 16:30 | 1d 5h | 9,888 | 22K |
| 5 | November 11, 2019 07:15 | December 9, 2019 01:45 | 27d 18h | 9,461 | 233K |
| 6 | February 3, 2019 16:15 | February 3, 2019 20:30 | 4h 15m | 7,548 | 2,451 |
| 7 | August 6, 2019 12:00 | August 6, 2019 23:15 | 11h 15m | 7,104 | 5,727 |
| 8 | October 31, 2019 04:15 | November 3, 2019 23:15 | 3d 19h | 6,980 | 73K |
| 9 | January 10, 2019 14:15 | January 12, 2019 10:45 | 1d 20h | 6,976 | 5,970 |
| 10 | June 21, 2019 03:00 | June 22, 2019 08:00 | 1d 5h | 6,194 | 3,834 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 145 reached 100+ customers, 69 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Morris 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2018 | 21.5 hrs | 2.17 | 2.7 hrs | 1.36 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2018 | 28 min | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 98% of New Jersey's customers in 2019; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 112,181 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. Morris County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morris 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/morris-county