Union County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Union County, New Jersey had 12 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.55 times the US outage time per person and 0.61 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 16 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.3major outages per year

6 of 9years with a major outage

152 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 77,985 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 151.5 hours.

Outage time per resident, rated New Jersey counties

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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	163,186	203	0
2016	520,456	310	2
2017	283,469	222	0
2018	1,979,590	274	3
2019	423,674	227	3
2020	2,987,258	229	1
2021	317,095	205	1
2022	201,697	221	0
2023	280,423	183	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	151.5	77,985	2,735,153
Mar 7, 2018	122.5	24,477	1,322,780
Mar 2, 2018	79.0	12,728	175,480
Jun 29, 2019	31.5	11,508	112,080
Jul 18, 2016	24.8	14,245	91,042

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.