Ocean County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ocean County, New Jersey had 33 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.12 times the US outage time per person and 1.25 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 9 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

3.7major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

143 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 57% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 216,332 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 142.8 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	339,277	155	0
2016	1,978,563	413	3
2017	1,097,713	341	5
2018	1,014,076	298	4
2019	2,010,927	286	5
2020	7,414,444	305	7
2021	958,273	294	5
2022	576,826	278	0
2023	1,087,030	307	4

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	142.8	216,332	6,060,042
Jul 22, 2019	71.5	87,344	1,280,967
Jan 23, 2016	48.2	106,447	989,283
Jun 3, 2020	35.0	50,457	492,610
Mar 22, 2018	35.0	26,645	323,784

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.