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2020 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 19.7 hours, a total of 8.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 439th 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 Bergen 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 3, 2020 07:30 | August 23, 2020 08:00 | 20d | 140,979 | 7.5M |
| 2 | June 18, 2020 09:45 | June 21, 2020 07:30 | 2d 21h | 36,906 | 62K |
| 3 | December 24, 2020 14:00 | December 28, 2020 03:30 | 3d 13h | 19,790 | 234K |
| 4 | November 15, 2020 12:45 | November 18, 2020 04:30 | 2d 15h | 9,754 | 58K |
| 5 | August 25, 2020 09:00 | September 3, 2020 02:15 | 8d 17h | 9,728 | 43K |
| 6 | July 2, 2020 11:30 | July 8, 2020 09:00 | 5d 21h | 7,139 | 46K |
| 7 | January 25, 2020 14:00 | January 26, 2020 19:15 | 1d 5h | 5,240 | 19K |
| 8 | July 9, 2020 06:45 | July 14, 2020 21:45 | 5d 15h | 4,284 | 17K |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 05:00 | May 7, 2020 20:30 | 24d 15h | 4,168 | 31K |
| 10 | January 27, 2020 12:15 | January 27, 2020 20:45 | 8h 30m | 4,099 | 1,163 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 135 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 Bergen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2020 | 7.5 hrs | 1.07 | 45 min | 0.62 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Park Ridge - (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 99% of New Jersey's customers in 2020; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 418,357 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. Bergen County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Bergen 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/bergen-county