Somerset County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Somerset County, New Jersey had 14 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.86 times the US outage time per person and 0.96 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 10 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.6major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

163 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 63% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 36,937 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 147.2 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.

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

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	250,958	183	0
2016	554,692	287	3
2017	355,067	197	0
2018	1,987,382	188	2
2019	480,042	152	4
2020	2,174,852	146	2
2021	414,532	165	1
2022	297,753	165	0
2023	273,166	155	2

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	147.2	36,937	1,951,289
Mar 6, 2018	163.0	28,201	1,305,746
Mar 2, 2018	77.2	10,458	467,074
Sep 1, 2021	42.2	10,196	136,868
Apr 3, 2016	31.2	8,801	95,626

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.