Camden County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Camden County, New Jersey had 19 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.84 times the US outage time per person and 0.93 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 11 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.1major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Julhardest months

June and July made up 70% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Jun 3, 2020, reached 63,931 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 78.2 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	4,306,253	200	4
2016	552,608	280	4
2017	358,778	228	1
2018	792,582	225	3
2019	717,944	192	3
2020	2,459,221	246	3
2021	258,337	199	1
2022	166,260	196	0
2023	221,336	190	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
Jun 3, 2020	78.2	63,931	1,593,689
Jun 23, 2015	19.2	93,824	1,487,494
Jun 24, 2015	22.8	81,967	1,322,693
Jun 25, 2015	50.5	48,750	1,104,562
Aug 4, 2020	101.0	24,986	590,954

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.