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2025 Ocean County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Ocean County, NJ went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.3 hours). That ranks 5th worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 1426th 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 Ocean 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 | February 16, 2025 11:30 | February 20, 2025 10:45 | 3d 23h | 34,847 | 199K |
| 2 | April 22, 2025 10:45 | April 25, 2025 19:30 | 3d 8h | 25,549 | 511K |
| 3 | December 24, 2025 13:00 | December 25, 2025 19:30 | 1d 6h | 22,881 | 31K |
| 4 | July 8, 2025 12:00 | July 18, 2025 06:00 | 9d 18h | 12,202 | 67K |
| 5 | June 19, 2025 14:15 | July 5, 2025 04:30 | 15d 14h | 10,996 | 250K |
| 6 | August 19, 2025 11:00 | August 23, 2025 08:30 | 3d 21h | 9,166 | 32K |
| 7 | January 7, 2025 13:00 | January 9, 2025 10:30 | 1d 21h | 8,890 | 32K |
| 8 | May 3, 2025 23:15 | May 5, 2025 07:30 | 1d 8h | 8,495 | 30K |
| 9 | July 29, 2025 13:30 | August 1, 2025 18:45 | 3d 5h | 7,661 | 39K |
| 10 | November 17, 2025 14:00 | November 19, 2025 04:00 | 1d 14h | 7,419 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 162 reached 100+ customers, 71 reached 1,000+ customers, 5 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 Ocean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jersey Central Power & Lt Co | 2024 | 8.0 hrs | 2.46 | 4.2 hrs | 1.95 |
| Atlantic City Electric Co | 2024 | 2.0 hrs | 0.84 | 50 min | 0.67 |
| Borough of Lavallette - (NJ) | - | - | - | - | - |
| Seaside Heights Municipal Utility | - | - | - | - | - |
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 ÷ 327,289 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. Ocean County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Ocean 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/ocean-county