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2020 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 27.4 hours, a total of 3.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 17.5 hours). That ranks 4th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 311th 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 Passaic 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 20, 2020 15:00 | August 23, 2020 10:30 | 2d 19h | 69,938 | 20K |
| 2 | August 3, 2020 12:45 | August 16, 2020 02:45 | 12d 14h | 53,688 | 2.9M |
| 3 | June 30, 2020 22:15 | July 3, 2020 07:00 | 2d 8h | 40,567 | 30K |
| 4 | February 12, 2020 00:00 | February 12, 2020 17:15 | 17h 15m | 12,555 | 11K |
| 5 | November 4, 2020 11:45 | November 6, 2020 11:00 | 1d 23h | 9,022 | 5,569 |
| 6 | June 17, 2020 17:00 | June 18, 2020 11:30 | 18h 30m | 6,532 | 1,756 |
| 7 | November 4, 2020 07:15 | November 4, 2020 07:30 | 15m | 6,056 | 1,514 |
| 8 | November 15, 2020 22:15 | November 18, 2020 05:30 | 2d 7h | 5,848 | 5,999 |
| 9 | July 3, 2020 12:45 | July 4, 2020 04:15 | 15h 30m | 3,685 | 2,840 |
| 10 | June 15, 2020 11:15 | June 15, 2020 20:30 | 9h 15m | 3,598 | 966 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 132 reached 100+ customers, 64 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 Passaic 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 ÷ 119,763 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. Passaic County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Passaic 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/passaic-county