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2022 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 11.5 hours, a total of 549K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.1 hours). That ranks 2nd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 614th 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 Sussex 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 8, 2022 00:15 | August 11, 2022 04:15 | 3d 4h | 44,821 | 113K |
| 2 | May 9, 2022 11:45 | May 10, 2022 21:15 | 1d 9h | 16,366 | 26K |
| 3 | March 7, 2022 16:30 | March 10, 2022 17:30 | 3d 1h | 8,926 | 49K |
| 4 | April 8, 2022 00:30 | April 8, 2022 10:00 | 9h 30m | 7,124 | 7,223 |
| 5 | November 25, 2022 20:45 | November 26, 2022 17:45 | 21h | 7,097 | 16K |
| 6 | June 16, 2022 10:15 | June 17, 2022 00:30 | 14h 15m | 5,526 | 3,283 |
| 7 | September 19, 2022 18:30 | September 21, 2022 11:00 | 1d 16h | 5,376 | 14K |
| 8 | September 13, 2022 11:00 | September 15, 2022 07:45 | 1d 20h | 4,564 | 2,691 |
| 9 | November 30, 2022 14:30 | December 1, 2022 04:30 | 14h | 4,210 | 15K |
| 10 | December 23, 2022 12:00 | December 27, 2022 01:30 | 3d 13h | 3,765 | 33K |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 132 reached 100+ customers, 34 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 Sussex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2022 | 3.8 hrs | 1.70 | 3.2 hrs | 1.56 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county