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2021 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1699th 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 Ocean 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 21, 2021 10:45 | June 24, 2021 00:00 | 2d 13h | 30,960 | 66K |
| 2 | June 8, 2021 09:00 | June 11, 2021 07:30 | 2d 22h | 22,940 | 43K |
| 3 | July 20, 2021 10:30 | July 23, 2021 06:30 | 2d 20h | 22,484 | 58K |
| 4 | July 6, 2021 10:00 | July 19, 2021 05:00 | 12d 19h | 13,669 | 178K |
| 5 | August 26, 2021 19:15 | September 1, 2021 11:15 | 5d 16h | 12,347 | 72K |
| 6 | February 9, 2021 15:15 | February 10, 2021 04:00 | 12h 45m | 11,427 | 19K |
| 7 | February 8, 2021 13:00 | February 9, 2021 05:30 | 16h 30m | 11,371 | 14K |
| 8 | February 23, 2021 15:00 | February 23, 2021 17:15 | 2h 15m | 9,457 | 2,525 |
| 9 | May 21, 2021 10:45 | May 25, 2021 07:30 | 3d 20h | 8,573 | 21K |
| 10 | December 6, 2021 17:15 | December 8, 2021 05:15 | 1d 12h | 8,395 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 172 reached 100+ customers, 80 reached 1,000+ customers, 7 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2021 | 5.8 hrs | 1.89 | 3.2 hrs | 1.59 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2021 | 64 min | 0.71 | 54 min | 0.70 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county