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2019 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.7 hours, a total of 134K customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 9th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1417th 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 Salem 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 22, 2019 21:30 | July 24, 2019 05:15 | 1d 7h | 5,281 | 25K |
| 2 | June 29, 2019 19:45 | July 1, 2019 14:45 | 1d 19h | 5,193 | 20K |
| 3 | November 18, 2019 07:00 | November 18, 2019 18:30 | 11h 30m | 4,979 | 4,582 |
| 4 | November 18, 2019 20:00 | November 18, 2019 22:30 | 2h 30m | 4,977 | 6,223 |
| 5 | April 26, 2019 19:45 | April 28, 2019 14:15 | 1d 18h | 4,203 | 14K |
| 6 | June 13, 2019 21:30 | June 15, 2019 09:15 | 1d 11h | 3,015 | 6,588 |
| 7 | August 1, 2019 18:00 | August 2, 2019 07:45 | 13h 45m | 2,556 | 1,615 |
| 8 | January 24, 2019 19:45 | January 24, 2019 23:15 | 3h 30m | 2,063 | 522 |
| 9 | September 2, 2019 19:00 | September 2, 2019 22:00 | 3h | 2,035 | 3,665 |
| 10 | January 18, 2019 21:15 | January 18, 2019 21:30 | 15m | 1,997 | 499 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 61 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 Salem 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 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2018 | 5.4 hrs | 1.33 | 76 min | 0.90 |
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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county