Essex County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Essex County, New Jersey had 8 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.52 times the US outage time per person and 0.57 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 17 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.9major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

170 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 85,509 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 170.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New Jersey counties

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Outage impact by year

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

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	359,215	334	0
2016	680,184	369	1
2017	393,924	306	0
2018	2,230,230	355	3
2019	641,027	347	0
2020	4,069,856	280	1
2021	868,499	328	1
2022	392,099	286	1
2023	404,340	299	1

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	170.5	85,509	3,681,118
Mar 7, 2018	143.2	32,291	1,219,274
Sep 1, 2021	54.2	25,768	381,514
Mar 2, 2018	78.2	17,320	287,980
May 15, 2018	52.5	13,810	144,303

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.