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2025 Cape May County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Cape May County, NJ went without power for an average of 2.7 hours, a total of 151K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.3 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2169th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NJ, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of New Jersey customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Cape May County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 14, 2025 07:15 | August 14, 2025 10:45 | 3h 30m | 7,758 | 4,947 |
| 2 | January 28, 2025 23:15 | January 29, 2025 08:45 | 9h 30m | 5,300 | 17K |
| 3 | October 22, 2025 17:30 | October 24, 2025 21:45 | 2d 4h | 4,373 | 2,065 |
| 4 | June 9, 2025 06:45 | June 9, 2025 18:15 | 11h 30m | 2,985 | 6,513 |
| 5 | February 1, 2025 15:45 | February 2, 2025 02:15 | 10h 30m | 2,828 | 899 |
| 6 | February 16, 2025 18:00 | February 18, 2025 21:30 | 2d 3h | 2,518 | 6,948 |
| 7 | December 8, 2025 12:45 | December 8, 2025 19:45 | 7h | 2,501 | 1,926 |
| 8 | May 23, 2025 10:45 | May 25, 2025 06:30 | 1d 19h | 2,260 | 1,536 |
| 9 | August 21, 2025 20:45 | August 22, 2025 01:30 | 4h 45m | 2,084 | 2,250 |
| 10 | May 21, 2025 21:30 | May 22, 2025 19:15 | 21h 45m | 2,043 | 4,291 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 73 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 Cape May County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2025, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 2025; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 56,097 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. Cape May County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Cape May County, NJ annual power outage report, 2025, 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/2025/new-jersey/cape-may-county