Warren County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Warren County, New Jersey had 42 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Higher outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 2.18 times the US outage time per person and 2.42 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 3 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.7major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

116 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Aughardest months

March and August made up 50% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 2, 2018, reached 19,281 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 81.0 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	74,520	49	0
2016	434,682	163	4
2017	442,202	135	8
2018	2,027,981	124	3
2019	492,571	106	7
2020	804,882	94	3
2021	503,221	79	7
2022	285,877	98	5
2023	303,425	125	5

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
Mar 2, 2018	81.0	19,281	1,189,682
Aug 4, 2020	97.2	17,039	600,443
Mar 6, 2018	116.5	8,651	423,536
Dec 1, 2019	115.8	6,351	279,014
May 15, 2018	76.8	8,630	268,995

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.