Cumberland County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Cumberland County, New Jersey had 18 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.50 times the US outage time per person and 0.55 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 18 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.0major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

81 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 23,295 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.2 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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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	130,949	58	2
2016	169,294	67	5
2017	50,932	51	2
2018	583,952	59	4
2019	54,154	47	0
2020	592,132	65	3
2021	47,116	63	1
2022	38,158	39	1
2023	41,346	51	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	81.2	23,295	477,969
Mar 21, 2018	42.2	15,350	352,842
Mar 2, 2018	53.2	5,727	86,248
Mar 23, 2018	35.2	6,588	77,064
Jun 23, 2015	18.8	6,749	52,555

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.