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2021 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.7 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 694th 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 Morris 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 | July 6, 2021 12:30 | July 11, 2021 02:30 | 4d 14h | 25,237 | 299K |
| 2 | August 9, 2021 11:00 | August 16, 2021 08:30 | 6d 21h | 14,757 | 43K |
| 3 | September 1, 2021 07:00 | September 7, 2021 21:30 | 6d 14h | 12,038 | 216K |
| 4 | February 23, 2021 00:30 | February 23, 2021 18:00 | 17h 30m | 8,286 | 8,078 |
| 5 | January 22, 2021 14:00 | January 22, 2021 23:30 | 9h 30m | 7,867 | 4,379 |
| 6 | May 26, 2021 13:30 | May 28, 2021 01:15 | 1d 11h | 7,641 | 26K |
| 7 | February 26, 2021 14:00 | February 26, 2021 18:30 | 4h 30m | 6,958 | 5,217 |
| 8 | May 19, 2021 13:00 | May 19, 2021 18:30 | 5h 30m | 6,447 | 11K |
| 9 | August 6, 2021 09:00 | August 7, 2021 13:15 | 1d 4h | 5,722 | 4,482 |
| 10 | November 2, 2021 15:45 | November 4, 2021 06:30 | 1d 14h | 5,426 | 23K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 173 reached 100+ customers, 75 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 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 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.89 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/morris-county