Monmouth County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Monmouth County, New Jersey had 47 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.60 times the US outage time per person and 1.78 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 5 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

5.2major outages per year

9 of 9years with a major outage

154 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Julhardest months

August and July made up 69% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 202,864 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 154.0 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	315,774	151	1
2016	1,396,848	398	7
2017	956,325	343	6
2018	1,570,548	315	10
2019	4,290,051	335	4
2020	11,441,790	314	7
2021	1,142,160	274	6
2022	817,255	312	2
2023	939,290	294	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	154.0	202,864	10,293,011
Jul 23, 2019	78.0	137,151	3,233,562
Mar 7, 2018	98.2	16,577	421,744
Dec 18, 2023	44.0	15,582	244,482
Sep 14, 2021	46.2	45,880	239,539

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.