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2019 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 49.0 hours, a total of 2.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 4.7 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 59th 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 Sussex 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 | December 1, 2019 20:30 | December 9, 2019 07:15 | 7d 10h | 39,284 | 1.8M |
| 2 | December 29, 2019 16:15 | December 30, 2019 03:30 | 11h 15m | 10,696 | 41K |
| 3 | May 28, 2019 22:45 | May 31, 2019 07:00 | 2d 8h | 9,693 | 88K |
| 4 | July 19, 2019 07:00 | July 20, 2019 06:30 | 23h 30m | 8,579 | 4,935 |
| 5 | July 17, 2019 17:00 | July 19, 2019 05:15 | 1d 12h | 6,612 | 15K |
| 6 | April 12, 2019 03:45 | April 12, 2019 04:15 | 30m | 5,314 | 2,657 |
| 7 | October 16, 2019 17:30 | October 19, 2019 03:00 | 2d 9h | 5,087 | 16K |
| 8 | August 18, 2019 23:15 | August 19, 2019 07:00 | 7h 45m | 4,816 | 2,232 |
| 9 | March 22, 2019 13:30 | March 22, 2019 23:30 | 10h | 4,793 | 4,594 |
| 10 | October 31, 2019 19:00 | November 4, 2019 00:30 | 3d 5h | 3,867 | 25K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 132 reached 100+ customers, 41 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county