County annual report · FIPS 34005
2020 Burlington County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Burlington County, NJ went without power for an average of 25.2 hours, a total of 5.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 340th 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 Burlington 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 11:45 | August 14, 2020 00:45 | 10d 13h | 93,115 | 3.0M |
| 2 | May 8, 2020 16:30 | June 9, 2020 22:30 | 32d 6h | 61,281 | 1.8M |
| 3 | July 6, 2020 09:45 | July 8, 2020 06:45 | 1d 21h | 13,980 | 50K |
| 4 | April 13, 2020 08:45 | April 15, 2020 02:30 | 1d 17h | 13,917 | 15K |
| 5 | April 15, 2020 22:00 | April 16, 2020 02:15 | 4h 15m | 12,689 | 9,045 |
| 6 | December 25, 2020 01:15 | December 28, 2020 01:00 | 2d 23h | 8,587 | 49K |
| 7 | September 10, 2020 11:45 | September 10, 2020 17:45 | 6h | 4,870 | 1,409 |
| 8 | September 9, 2020 07:30 | September 9, 2020 07:45 | 15m | 4,869 | 1,217 |
| 9 | January 4, 2020 12:45 | January 4, 2020 14:15 | 1h 30m | 2,919 | 1,477 |
| 10 | October 9, 2020 18:30 | October 9, 2020 19:45 | 1h 15m | 2,814 | 2,114 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 183 reached 100+ customers, 81 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Burlington 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2020 | 36.6 hrs | 2.74 | 3.1 hrs | 1.69 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2020 | 9.2 hrs | 1.47 | 68 min | 0.81 |
| Borough of Pemberton - (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 ÷ 208,513 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. Burlington County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Burlington 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/burlington-county