Morris County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Morris County, New Jersey had 41 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.09 times the US outage time per person and 2.32 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 4 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.6major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

166 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 64% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 133,793 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 151.2 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	390,047	162	2
2016	1,836,600	443	9
2017	1,164,958	327	3
2018	7,465,359	349	6
2019	1,171,021	359	6
2020	8,894,754	330	4
2021	1,181,629	279	5
2022	938,108	307	3
2023	981,900	331	3

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	151.2	133,793	8,153,988
Mar 6, 2018	165.8	60,709	3,145,528
Mar 2, 2018	81.0	55,197	2,805,848
May 15, 2018	79.5	31,039	747,380
Apr 3, 2016	32.5	38,502	327,402

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.