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2021 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.0 hours, a total of 477K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1543rd 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 Passaic 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 11:15 | July 10, 2021 23:45 | 4d 12h | 12,735 | 140K |
| 2 | June 7, 2021 14:15 | June 8, 2021 16:00 | 1d 1h | 7,592 | 16K |
| 3 | October 11, 2021 02:45 | October 11, 2021 03:00 | 15m | 7,085 | 1,771 |
| 4 | September 29, 2021 10:30 | October 1, 2021 01:00 | 1d 14h | 6,612 | 2,210 |
| 5 | April 21, 2021 16:45 | April 24, 2021 03:30 | 2d 10h | 6,578 | 4,381 |
| 6 | February 10, 2021 11:45 | February 10, 2021 17:45 | 6h | 5,749 | 1,460 |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 20:45 | February 17, 2021 00:30 | 1d 3h | 5,749 | 5,063 |
| 8 | September 1, 2021 21:45 | September 5, 2021 04:30 | 3d 6h | 3,553 | 30K |
| 9 | December 12, 2021 01:30 | December 13, 2021 01:15 | 23h 45m | 3,505 | 8,054 |
| 10 | March 10, 2021 14:00 | March 11, 2021 01:45 | 11h 45m | 3,342 | 1,736 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 154 reached 100+ customers, 65 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 Passaic 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 |
| 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 2021; 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, 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/passaic-county