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2024 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 24.2 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.9 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 412th 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 Sussex 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 26, 2024 18:30 | July 2, 2024 02:45 | 5d 8h | 25,085 | 232K |
| 2 | April 3, 2024 10:30 | April 7, 2024 01:15 | 3d 14h | 12,921 | 70K |
| 3 | November 28, 2024 08:00 | November 28, 2024 09:00 | 1h | 9,685 | 4,849 |
| 4 | July 13, 2024 06:15 | July 20, 2024 05:30 | 6d 23h | 9,496 | 101K |
| 5 | November 21, 2024 03:30 | November 25, 2024 05:30 | 4d 2h | 8,388 | 113K |
| 6 | September 21, 2024 12:45 | September 23, 2024 15:00 | 2d 2h | 6,313 | 4,902 |
| 7 | May 22, 2024 11:45 | May 24, 2024 00:15 | 1d 12h | 5,846 | 31K |
| 8 | June 21, 2024 17:00 | June 24, 2024 05:15 | 2d 12h | 5,457 | 20K |
| 9 | November 8, 2024 17:45 | November 13, 2024 18:45 | 5d 1h | 3,844 | 71K |
| 10 | August 2, 2024 14:45 | August 5, 2024 19:15 | 3d 4h | 3,661 | 21K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 107 reached 100+ customers, 40 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 Sussex 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 |
| Rockland Electric Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Sussex Rural Electric Coop Inc | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 47,606 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. Sussex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Sussex 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/sussex-county