Middlesex County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Middlesex County, New Jersey had 9 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.42 times the US outage time per person and 0.47 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 19 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.0major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

139 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 56% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 100,804 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 139.2 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	302,441	329	0
2016	1,008,460	497	4
2017	449,918	311	1
2018	1,141,873	408	1
2019	735,831	306	1
2020	3,586,612	310	1
2021	471,056	287	1
2022	251,701	253	0
2023	327,789	261	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
Aug 4, 2020	139.2	100,804	3,084,836
Mar 7, 2018	119.8	26,861	559,130
Jul 23, 2019	32.2	23,376	246,442
Jul 25, 2016	6.0	50,123	199,962
Apr 3, 2016	17.5	13,071	72,356

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.