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2024 Morris County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Morris County, NJ went without power for an average of 19.6 hours, a total of 2.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 3rd worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 513th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Morris County, 2024
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 10, 2024 16:00 | March 15, 2024 01:45 | 4d 9h | 29,213 | 118K |
| 2 | June 18, 2024 10:00 | July 4, 2024 04:45 | 15d 18h | 26,249 | 577K |
| 3 | February 19, 2024 19:00 | March 5, 2024 06:45 | 14d 11h | 17,202 | 192K |
| 4 | July 4, 2024 16:00 | July 13, 2024 06:15 | 8d 14h | 6,890 | 84K |
| 5 | August 2, 2024 11:00 | August 14, 2024 09:15 | 11d 22h | 5,716 | 92K |
| 6 | April 3, 2024 12:15 | April 7, 2024 04:15 | 3d 16h | 5,249 | 121K |
| 7 | August 18, 2024 20:00 | September 13, 2024 07:45 | 25d 11h | 5,037 | 434K |
| 8 | June 5, 2024 12:00 | June 10, 2024 08:45 | 4d 20h | 4,905 | 23K |
| 9 | January 6, 2024 18:30 | January 9, 2024 04:00 | 2d 9h | 4,359 | 21K |
| 10 | October 10, 2024 13:15 | November 14, 2024 12:45 | 34d 23h | 3,970 | 77K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 115 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 45 min | 0.57 | 39 min | 0.55 |
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.46 | 4.2 hrs | 1.95 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/new-jersey/morris-county