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2025 Sussex County, NJ Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Sussex County, NJ went without power for an average of 24.6 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (New Jersey average 3.3 hours). That ranks 1st worst of 21 New Jersey counties and 256th 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 Sussex 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 | March 5, 2025 17:00 | March 10, 2025 14:15 | 4d 21h | 11,782 | 42K |
| 2 | December 19, 2025 08:15 | December 23, 2025 08:45 | 4d | 10,849 | 321K |
| 3 | August 8, 2025 11:30 | August 8, 2025 18:45 | 7h 15m | 9,594 | 8,359 |
| 4 | October 30, 2025 09:00 | November 3, 2025 18:00 | 4d 9h | 8,151 | 82K |
| 5 | April 12, 2025 07:45 | April 14, 2025 18:15 | 2d 10h | 8,033 | 37K |
| 6 | November 5, 2025 10:30 | November 8, 2025 16:30 | 3d 6h | 6,299 | 61K |
| 7 | July 25, 2025 11:00 | July 28, 2025 04:45 | 2d 17h | 5,438 | 16K |
| 8 | May 13, 2025 22:00 | May 19, 2025 18:30 | 5d 20h | 4,886 | 44K |
| 9 | October 11, 2025 06:15 | October 15, 2025 04:30 | 3d 22h | 4,837 | 31K |
| 10 | June 23, 2025 09:45 | June 25, 2025 08:00 | 1d 22h | 4,727 | 6,367 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 147 reached 100+ customers, 56 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 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 |
| 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 2025; 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, 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/sussex-county