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2021 Atlantic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Atlantic County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.0 hours, a total of 172K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2654th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Atlantic County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 3, 2021 10:00 | June 4, 2021 07:00 | 21h | 12,161 | 13K |
| 2 | April 28, 2021 19:00 | April 28, 2021 23:00 | 4h | 7,461 | 3,749 |
| 3 | June 18, 2021 01:30 | June 18, 2021 06:00 | 4h 30m | 6,244 | 5,012 |
| 4 | April 1, 2021 23:15 | April 2, 2021 03:30 | 4h 15m | 3,768 | 956 |
| 5 | June 27, 2021 01:15 | June 28, 2021 10:45 | 1d 9h | 3,462 | 1,222 |
| 6 | July 25, 2021 07:30 | July 25, 2021 18:15 | 10h 45m | 3,382 | 4,310 |
| 7 | June 1, 2021 11:45 | June 2, 2021 06:00 | 18h 15m | 3,377 | 2,617 |
| 8 | November 29, 2021 13:45 | November 30, 2021 02:15 | 12h 30m | 3,374 | 2,257 |
| 9 | July 7, 2021 20:30 | July 7, 2021 22:45 | 2h 15m | 3,066 | 4,600 |
| 10 | August 19, 2021 22:30 | August 20, 2021 15:30 | 17h | 2,756 | 4,415 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 122 reached 100+ customers, 33 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 64 min | 0.71 | 54 min | 0.70 |
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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/new-jersey/atlantic-county