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2022 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.4 hours, a total of 405K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1821st of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Passaic County, 2022
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2022 15:45 | October 8, 2022 21:30 | 5h 45m | 13,604 | 41K |
| 2 | October 27, 2022 06:15 | October 27, 2022 06:45 | 30m | 11,618 | 2,906 |
| 3 | May 2, 2022 06:30 | May 2, 2022 07:00 | 30m | 6,615 | 3,308 |
| 4 | September 19, 2022 13:45 | September 21, 2022 17:15 | 2d 3h | 5,677 | 16K |
| 5 | April 21, 2022 12:30 | April 22, 2022 01:45 | 13h 15m | 4,240 | 2,177 |
| 6 | September 4, 2022 14:00 | September 9, 2022 03:45 | 4d 13h | 3,715 | 31K |
| 7 | May 31, 2022 15:00 | June 4, 2022 13:00 | 3d 22h | 3,603 | 8,861 |
| 8 | July 7, 2022 12:00 | July 8, 2022 09:45 | 21h 45m | 3,396 | 1,317 |
| 9 | August 9, 2022 16:45 | August 12, 2022 21:00 | 3d 4h | 2,809 | 12K |
| 10 | January 17, 2022 02:45 | January 18, 2022 22:00 | 1d 19h | 2,768 | 15K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 143 reached 100+ customers, 58 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 34 min | 0.55 | 34 min | 0.55 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| 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 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/new-jersey/passaic-county