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2019 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 400K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1525th 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 Passaic 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 30, 2019 12:45 | November 5, 2019 04:45 | 5d 16h | 7,501 | 19K |
| 2 | October 21, 2019 05:00 | October 22, 2019 16:30 | 1d 11h | 6,996 | 2,279 |
| 3 | March 13, 2019 12:15 | March 14, 2019 22:15 | 1d 10h | 6,976 | 3,415 |
| 4 | July 20, 2019 17:00 | July 25, 2019 01:30 | 4d 8h | 4,841 | 14K |
| 5 | March 15, 2019 21:15 | March 17, 2019 04:15 | 1d 7h | 4,661 | 19K |
| 6 | April 30, 2019 13:15 | May 2, 2019 16:30 | 2d 3h | 4,641 | 2,097 |
| 7 | April 15, 2019 19:15 | April 18, 2019 01:45 | 2d 6h | 4,424 | 1,507 |
| 8 | October 3, 2019 06:45 | October 3, 2019 07:00 | 15m | 3,447 | 862 |
| 9 | December 1, 2019 18:45 | December 6, 2019 23:30 | 5d 4h | 3,389 | 46K |
| 10 | May 19, 2019 22:00 | May 24, 2019 02:15 | 4d 4h | 2,769 | 19K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 146 reached 100+ customers, 74 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 Passaic 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 119,763 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. Passaic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Passaic 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/passaic-county