Power outages in New Jersey
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
1,190
customers reported out statewide · 15 counties reporting · 2 with 50+ customers out
Updated 5:56 PM EDT.
Includes 285 that a utility reports without saying which county — search your address for your exact status.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Morris — 580 reported out · grew sharply just now — already running longer than the typical past outage here of 500–2,000 customers in the same kind of weather (~2.5 hr start to finish), based on 17 past outages
Middlesex — 281 reported out · grew sharply just now — already running longer than the typical past outage here of 500–2,000 customers in the same kind of weather (~5 hr start to finish), based on 14 past outages
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All New Jersey counties (21)
Utility coverage in New Jersey
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
PSE&G (New Jersey) · JCP&L (FirstEnergy NJ) · Atlantic City Electric · FirstEnergy (all states) · PSEG (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving New Jersey.
Historical outage patterns in New Jersey
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 34,240 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in New Jersey between 2014 and 2025 across all 21 counties — 485 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.3 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (31% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2016.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~216,332 customers out in Ocean County in August 2020, restored after about 3.8 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: August 2020 (20 counties), March 2018 (12 counties) and June 2015 (5 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Hunterdon County (~4.8 hr typical), Morris County (~4.3 hr typical) and Monmouth County (~4 hr typical) — against ~2.3 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve New Jersey?
Electric utilities we track in New Jersey include PSE&G, JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric, Orange & Rockland and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.