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2022 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.6 hours, a total of 59K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2451st 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 Salem 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 | August 2, 2022 15:00 | August 2, 2022 17:45 | 2h 45m | 3,450 | 871 |
| 2 | November 22, 2022 16:45 | November 22, 2022 19:15 | 2h 30m | 3,445 | 919 |
| 3 | June 8, 2022 19:00 | June 8, 2022 20:00 | 1h | 2,841 | 1,834 |
| 4 | August 30, 2022 20:45 | August 31, 2022 02:45 | 6h | 2,681 | 3,115 |
| 5 | August 9, 2022 13:00 | August 11, 2022 03:30 | 1d 14h | 2,139 | 691 |
| 6 | June 14, 2022 02:30 | June 14, 2022 07:30 | 5h | 2,137 | 3,958 |
| 7 | August 8, 2022 21:30 | August 9, 2022 01:45 | 4h 15m | 2,137 | 2,642 |
| 8 | July 5, 2022 02:15 | July 6, 2022 00:00 | 21h 45m | 2,136 | 2,294 |
| 9 | July 20, 2022 11:30 | July 21, 2022 09:00 | 21h 30m | 1,968 | 1,294 |
| 10 | May 7, 2022 05:00 | May 8, 2022 20:00 | 1d 15h | 1,726 | 2,551 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 60 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 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 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2022 | 51 min | 0.65 | 51 min | 0.65 |
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 ÷ 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, 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/salem-county