Bergen County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Bergen County, New Jersey had 6 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Below middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.60 times the US outage time per person and 0.67 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 13 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

0.7major outages per year

4 of 9years with a major outage

155 hrslongest major outage

Aug, Marhardest months

August and March made up 72% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Aug 4, 2020, reached 140,979 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 155.2 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.

2.5M

7.5M

10M

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	499,498	417	0
2016	538,280	419	0
2017	392,946	380	0
2018	1,930,128	433	2
2019	324,472	314	0
2020	8,129,394	319	2
2021	533,332	356	1
2022	313,342	373	0
2023	330,927	297	1

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	155.2	140,979	7,424,462
Mar 7, 2018	120.2	45,405	1,197,622
Dec 25, 2020	43.8	19,790	231,615
May 15, 2018	44.5	19,656	186,139
Sep 1, 2021	40.5	8,254	92,009

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.