County annual report · FIPS 34029
2019 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 2.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 837th 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 Ocean 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 17, 2019 13:45 | July 28, 2019 09:00 | 10d 19h | 87,344 | 1.4M |
| 2 | April 15, 2019 06:15 | April 17, 2019 05:45 | 1d 23h | 16,755 | 71K |
| 3 | June 18, 2019 15:00 | June 20, 2019 03:15 | 1d 12h | 16,214 | 5,811 |
| 4 | June 23, 2019 13:15 | June 25, 2019 02:15 | 1d 13h | 11,358 | 14K |
| 5 | June 26, 2019 13:00 | July 8, 2019 02:15 | 11d 13h | 9,906 | 69K |
| 6 | February 10, 2019 20:30 | February 10, 2019 22:15 | 1h 45m | 9,115 | 3,480 |
| 7 | December 30, 2019 13:00 | December 31, 2019 00:15 | 11h 15m | 8,426 | 15K |
| 8 | August 30, 2019 09:00 | August 31, 2019 05:15 | 20h 15m | 8,149 | 3,220 |
| 9 | May 19, 2019 22:30 | May 24, 2019 00:15 | 4d 1h | 7,549 | 16K |
| 10 | December 14, 2019 06:30 | December 14, 2019 18:15 | 11h 45m | 7,405 | 4,272 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 214 reached 100+ customers, 100 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2018 | 21.5 hrs | 2.17 | 2.7 hrs | 1.36 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 76 min | 0.90 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county