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2024 Passaic County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Passaic County, NJ went without power for an average of 5.4 hours, a total of 645K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 6th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1529th 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 Passaic 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 | July 5, 2024 06:30 | July 9, 2024 09:15 | 4d 2h | 12,478 | 24K |
| 2 | March 11, 2024 06:15 | March 16, 2024 01:30 | 4d 19h | 8,999 | 39K |
| 3 | July 13, 2024 10:15 | July 15, 2024 04:45 | 1d 18h | 7,959 | 5,288 |
| 4 | February 21, 2024 12:45 | February 22, 2024 02:45 | 14h | 7,228 | 5,595 |
| 5 | June 18, 2024 09:45 | July 4, 2024 08:00 | 15d 22h | 6,712 | 141K |
| 6 | July 9, 2024 11:15 | July 13, 2024 01:45 | 3d 14h | 4,714 | 7,999 |
| 7 | June 14, 2024 16:15 | June 16, 2024 02:15 | 1d 10h | 4,135 | 7,963 |
| 8 | October 21, 2024 14:45 | October 22, 2024 11:15 | 20h 30m | 4,004 | 4,506 |
| 9 | July 21, 2024 19:15 | July 25, 2024 01:15 | 3d 6h | 3,913 | 1,619 |
| 10 | January 9, 2024 12:45 | January 16, 2024 10:45 | 6d 22h | 3,347 | 34K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 112 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 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 |
| 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 2024; 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, 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/passaic-county