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2024 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 4.1 hours, a total of 1.3M customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 8th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1831st 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 Ocean 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 | June 21, 2024 11:30 | June 29, 2024 23:00 | 8d 11h | 26,620 | 272K |
| 2 | August 6, 2024 16:45 | August 8, 2024 04:15 | 1d 11h | 12,698 | 52K |
| 3 | January 8, 2024 21:15 | January 15, 2024 07:00 | 6d 9h | 12,330 | 114K |
| 4 | July 13, 2024 11:15 | July 20, 2024 08:45 | 6d 21h | 10,316 | 65K |
| 5 | July 31, 2024 11:45 | August 5, 2024 10:45 | 4d 23h | 10,199 | 48K |
| 6 | December 22, 2024 13:45 | December 25, 2024 07:45 | 2d 18h | 10,159 | 99K |
| 7 | December 28, 2024 07:00 | December 31, 2024 05:15 | 2d 22h | 9,479 | 47K |
| 8 | October 7, 2024 12:45 | October 11, 2024 06:30 | 3d 17h | 7,564 | 20K |
| 9 | April 6, 2024 09:00 | May 18, 2024 00:45 | 41d 15h | 7,424 | 77K |
| 10 | May 24, 2024 09:30 | June 1, 2024 04:30 | 7d 19h | 7,030 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 126 reached 100+ customers, 67 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.46 | 4.2 hrs | 1.95 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.84 | 50 min | 0.67 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county