County annual report · FIPS 34013
2025 Essex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Essex County, NJ went without power for an average of 1.8 hours, a total of 678K customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.3 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 2521st 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 Essex 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 | May 22, 2025 06:00 | May 25, 2025 02:15 | 2d 20h | 9,212 | 17K |
| 2 | June 16, 2025 10:30 | July 5, 2025 02:15 | 18d 15h | 6,583 | 172K |
| 3 | March 20, 2025 23:30 | March 22, 2025 20:15 | 1d 20h | 5,818 | 2,509 |
| 4 | August 11, 2025 07:30 | August 13, 2025 04:15 | 1d 20h | 4,321 | 20K |
| 5 | December 8, 2025 12:45 | December 24, 2025 04:15 | 15d 15h | 4,152 | 36K |
| 6 | July 5, 2025 10:45 | July 24, 2025 11:00 | 19d | 3,921 | 40K |
| 7 | May 25, 2025 03:45 | June 3, 2025 06:00 | 9d 2h | 3,552 | 35K |
| 8 | February 28, 2025 14:45 | March 10, 2025 02:30 | 9d 11h | 3,284 | 20K |
| 9 | June 9, 2025 07:45 | June 15, 2025 11:30 | 6d 3h | 2,809 | 6,040 |
| 10 | July 24, 2025 11:45 | August 5, 2025 06:30 | 11d 18h | 2,702 | 49K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 75 reached 100+ customers, 41 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 Essex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 ÷ 386,888 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. Essex County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Essex 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/essex-county