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2021 Bergen County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Bergen County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.7 hours, a total of 691K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2383rd 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 Bergen 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 | February 10, 2021 13:45 | February 10, 2021 14:00 | 15m | 12,828 | 3,207 |
| 2 | July 4, 2021 18:00 | July 12, 2021 07:45 | 7d 13h | 11,653 | 133K |
| 3 | January 21, 2021 11:00 | January 26, 2021 12:45 | 5d 1h | 11,138 | 5,334 |
| 4 | December 9, 2021 04:45 | December 9, 2021 05:00 | 15m | 10,917 | 2,729 |
| 5 | June 4, 2021 01:15 | June 12, 2021 04:30 | 8d 3h | 8,542 | 54K |
| 6 | September 1, 2021 11:45 | October 18, 2021 10:30 | 46d 22h | 8,254 | 168K |
| 7 | October 27, 2021 13:00 | November 1, 2021 03:30 | 4d 14h | 5,179 | 9,083 |
| 8 | August 11, 2021 11:30 | August 21, 2021 04:30 | 9d 17h | 5,164 | 22K |
| 9 | March 26, 2021 06:00 | March 27, 2021 10:45 | 1d 4h | 4,573 | 7,617 |
| 10 | May 17, 2021 01:15 | May 17, 2021 07:15 | 6h | 4,505 | 5,645 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 118 reached 100+ customers, 57 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 Bergen 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Service Elec & Gas Co | 2021 | 60 min | 0.66 | 41 min | 0.60 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/bergen-county