Burlington County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Burlington County, New Jersey had 24 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.18 times the US outage time per person and 1.31 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 7 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

126 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Aughardest months

June and August made up 59% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 93,115 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 126.0 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	1,943,939	242	4
2016	585,782	321	3
2017	407,910	251	3
2018	1,953,190	246	5
2019	1,577,032	213	3
2020	5,162,494	234	4
2021	223,269	199	1
2022	244,286	222	0
2023	293,655	220	1

When outages hit

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	126.0	93,115	3,023,488
Jun 3, 2020	81.8	61,281	1,826,765
Mar 7, 2018	93.8	64,420	1,301,209
Jul 23, 2019	70.0	53,261	1,112,841
Jun 23, 2015	18.8	60,166	766,776

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.