Atlantic County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Atlantic County, New Jersey had 23 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.65 times the US outage time per person and 0.72 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 12 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

112 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Junhardest months

August and June made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 57,544 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 111.8 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	798,028	153	4
2016	326,294	131	6
2017	127,378	92	2
2018	486,714	110	4
2019	135,602	106	0
2020	1,829,012	107	6
2021	116,179	111	0
2022	110,210	106	1
2023	73,153	81	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	111.8	57,544	1,495,580
Jun 23, 2015	18.8	21,735	243,148
Mar 21, 2018	38.5	10,573	236,523
Jun 24, 2015	22.8	14,506	194,218
Jun 25, 2015	50.5	7,615	155,534

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.