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2023 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 832nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Morris County, 2023
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 29, 2023 09:45 | March 30, 2023 00:15 | 14h 30m | 16,552 | 19K |
| 2 | September 5, 2023 11:15 | September 12, 2023 11:00 | 6d 23h | 15,497 | 119K |
| 3 | June 25, 2023 08:30 | June 30, 2023 07:00 | 4d 22h | 12,538 | 101K |
| 4 | August 22, 2023 08:45 | August 22, 2023 09:30 | 45m | 12,250 | 3,064 |
| 5 | October 6, 2023 18:45 | October 9, 2023 11:30 | 2d 16h | 10,111 | 28K |
| 6 | December 18, 2023 03:00 | December 23, 2023 11:45 | 5d 8h | 9,395 | 119K |
| 7 | January 12, 2023 13:45 | January 14, 2023 01:45 | 1d 12h | 6,781 | 20K |
| 8 | May 26, 2023 16:15 | May 27, 2023 03:45 | 11h 30m | 5,931 | 3,586 |
| 9 | July 9, 2023 11:00 | July 14, 2023 07:00 | 4d 20h | 5,513 | 48K |
| 10 | July 2, 2023 05:45 | July 7, 2023 09:15 | 5d 3h | 5,000 | 72K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 183 reached 100+ customers, 76 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Morris County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, 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 | 2023 | 38 min | 0.57 | 36 min | 0.55 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2023 | 4.4 hrs | 1.67 | 3.7 hrs | 1.56 |
| Borough of Madison - (NJ) | 2018 | 28 min | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
| 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 n/a of New Jersey's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 112,181 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. Morris County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Morris County, NJ annual power outage report, 2023, 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/2023/new-jersey/morris-county