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2024 Salem County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Salem County, NJ went without power for an average of 6.2 hours, a total of 227K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1382nd 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 Salem 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 | January 9, 2024 20:30 | January 15, 2024 12:15 | 5d 15h | 5,219 | 121K |
| 2 | December 29, 2024 17:30 | December 29, 2024 18:15 | 45m | 2,845 | 713 |
| 3 | January 25, 2024 23:00 | January 26, 2024 07:30 | 8h 30m | 2,812 | 1,078 |
| 4 | August 8, 2024 17:15 | August 12, 2024 19:45 | 4d 2h | 2,385 | 10K |
| 5 | June 23, 2024 21:45 | June 25, 2024 18:15 | 1d 20h | 2,153 | 26K |
| 6 | January 19, 2024 04:45 | January 19, 2024 05:00 | 15m | 2,127 | 532 |
| 7 | April 29, 2024 10:45 | April 29, 2024 23:15 | 12h 30m | 2,127 | 581 |
| 8 | September 9, 2024 11:45 | September 10, 2024 01:00 | 13h 15m | 1,776 | 621 |
| 9 | September 18, 2024 10:45 | September 19, 2024 12:15 | 1d 1h | 1,604 | 2,190 |
| 10 | July 31, 2024 08:45 | July 31, 2024 21:15 | 12h 30m | 1,401 | 2,413 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 73 reached 100+ customers, 12 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 Salem 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 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.84 | 50 min | 0.67 |
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 ÷ 36,572 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. Salem County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Salem 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/salem-county