County annual report · FIPS 34027
2020 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 80.5 hours, a total of 9.0M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 92nd 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 Morris 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 2, 2020 13:45 | August 19, 2020 07:30 | 16d 17h | 133,793 | 8.2M |
| 2 | December 25, 2020 02:00 | December 27, 2020 05:00 | 2d 3h | 16,063 | 78K |
| 3 | June 16, 2020 12:15 | July 14, 2020 07:00 | 27d 18h | 16,018 | 164K |
| 4 | May 25, 2020 05:30 | May 26, 2020 03:00 | 21h 30m | 11,118 | 15K |
| 5 | February 15, 2020 11:00 | February 16, 2020 08:00 | 21h | 6,229 | 18K |
| 6 | September 29, 2020 12:15 | October 1, 2020 03:30 | 1d 15h | 6,159 | 5,906 |
| 7 | September 7, 2020 13:15 | September 9, 2020 06:30 | 1d 17h | 6,060 | 6,528 |
| 8 | May 28, 2020 15:00 | May 30, 2020 02:30 | 1d 11h | 5,457 | 3,625 |
| 9 | April 13, 2020 10:30 | April 15, 2020 01:45 | 1d 15h | 4,938 | 27K |
| 10 | January 25, 2020 12:30 | January 26, 2020 19:00 | 1d 6h | 4,590 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 189 reached 100+ customers, 70 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 Morris 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 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2018 | 28 min | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| Borough of Butler - (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 ÷ 112,181 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. Morris County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morris 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/morris-county