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2021 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 67K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2305th 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 Salem 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 | March 28, 2021 23:15 | March 30, 2021 04:15 | 1d 5h | 3,463 | 2,294 |
| 2 | December 21, 2021 13:00 | December 21, 2021 16:45 | 3h 45m | 3,434 | 2,325 |
| 3 | March 30, 2021 18:15 | March 30, 2021 22:15 | 4h | 3,376 | 892 |
| 4 | June 21, 2021 18:45 | June 21, 2021 21:15 | 2h 30m | 2,838 | 3,057 |
| 5 | January 25, 2021 19:00 | January 25, 2021 19:15 | 15m | 2,827 | 707 |
| 6 | November 4, 2021 14:30 | November 4, 2021 23:30 | 9h | 2,482 | 662 |
| 7 | November 9, 2021 13:30 | November 9, 2021 15:30 | 2h | 2,480 | 871 |
| 8 | April 16, 2021 14:45 | April 16, 2021 16:15 | 1h 30m | 2,205 | 1,069 |
| 9 | May 24, 2021 17:00 | May 24, 2021 17:30 | 30m | 2,049 | 513 |
| 10 | November 10, 2021 14:30 | November 10, 2021 17:15 | 2h 45m | 2,015 | 514 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 77 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 Salem 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 |
| 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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county