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2020 Atlantic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Atlantic County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.4 hours, a total of 1.9M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 13th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 700th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Atlantic County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 4, 2020 12:30 | August 11, 2020 07:30 | 6d 19h | 57,544 | 1.5M |
| 2 | April 7, 2020 18:00 | April 15, 2020 23:45 | 8d 5h | 14,987 | 145K |
| 3 | February 7, 2020 15:30 | February 8, 2020 19:00 | 1d 3h | 12,620 | 30K |
| 4 | April 21, 2020 16:30 | April 22, 2020 06:00 | 13h 30m | 7,612 | 3,733 |
| 5 | November 4, 2020 13:15 | November 5, 2020 12:00 | 22h 45m | 7,445 | 3,890 |
| 6 | June 3, 2020 17:00 | June 10, 2020 18:00 | 7d 1h | 7,248 | 46K |
| 7 | April 24, 2020 20:45 | April 24, 2020 23:45 | 3h | 5,549 | 1,416 |
| 8 | December 25, 2020 02:00 | December 29, 2020 03:45 | 4d 1h | 4,502 | 31K |
| 9 | July 20, 2020 12:15 | July 21, 2020 09:15 | 21h | 4,261 | 5,291 |
| 10 | April 21, 2020 14:45 | April 21, 2020 15:00 | 15m | 4,239 | 1,060 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 112 reached 100+ customers, 35 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 Atlantic County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2020, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2020 | 9.2 hrs | 1.47 | 68 min | 0.81 |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 167,221 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. Atlantic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Atlantic County, NJ annual power outage report, 2020, 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/2020/new-jersey/atlantic-county