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2023 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 3.3 hours, a total of 399K customer-hours (New Jersey average 2.4 hours). That ranks 7th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1857th 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 Passaic 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 | December 6, 2023 13:15 | December 7, 2023 10:30 | 21h 15m | 9,646 | 5,471 |
| 2 | January 10, 2023 13:30 | January 11, 2023 22:45 | 1d 9h | 7,907 | 6,183 |
| 3 | September 5, 2023 14:00 | September 7, 2023 10:15 | 1d 20h | 6,608 | 5,004 |
| 4 | December 18, 2023 05:30 | December 22, 2023 03:30 | 3d 22h | 4,843 | 48K |
| 5 | October 23, 2023 22:30 | October 27, 2023 04:30 | 3d 6h | 4,780 | 1,766 |
| 6 | September 24, 2023 17:00 | September 27, 2023 02:00 | 2d 9h | 4,080 | 3,376 |
| 7 | June 26, 2023 11:30 | June 30, 2023 17:30 | 4d 6h | 4,034 | 7,679 |
| 8 | October 9, 2023 16:00 | October 11, 2023 03:15 | 1d 11h | 3,604 | 4,696 |
| 9 | July 25, 2023 11:45 | July 26, 2023 03:30 | 15h 45m | 3,332 | 4,920 |
| 10 | July 13, 2023 11:30 | July 17, 2023 06:30 | 3d 19h | 3,316 | 36K |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 169 reached 100+ customers, 71 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 Passaic 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 |
| 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 n/a of New Jersey's customers in 2023; 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, 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/passaic-county