Gloucester County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Gloucester County, New Jersey had 22 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.17 times the US outage time per person and 1.30 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 8 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

105 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 78% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 25, 2015, reached 56,378 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 50.5 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	5,281,444	183	5
2016	322,061	149	4
2017	376,774	146	3
2018	740,785	143	5
2019	278,216	129	1
2020	635,286	142	3
2021	225,078	118	1
2022	86,090	120	0
2023	104,750	93	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
Jun 25, 2015	50.5	56,378	1,604,976
Jun 24, 2015	22.8	77,079	1,586,827
Jun 23, 2015	19.2	81,657	1,417,741
Jun 27, 2015	34.5	26,439	456,970
Mar 21, 2018	40.0	17,619	345,844

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.