Salem County, New Jersey Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Salem County, New Jersey had 20 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.31 times the US outage time per person and 1.46 times the New Jersey rate. It ranks 6 of 20 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

2.2major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

70 hrslongest major outage

Jun, Marhardest months

June and March made up 66% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 21, 2018, reached 10,232 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 42.5 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.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	696,387	59	4
2016	150,616	70	3
2017	160,872	57	3
2018	424,403	51	3
2019	110,278	62	2
2020	243,451	71	4
2021	40,200	49	0
2022	29,030	44	0
2023	50,602	44	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
Mar 21, 2018	42.5	10,232	250,638
Jun 23, 2015	19.2	15,558	232,570
Jun 24, 2015	22.8	14,802	202,585
Jun 25, 2015	50.5	8,440	153,925
Aug 4, 2020	70.0	7,897	127,111

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.