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Who serves Atlantic County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Atlantic City Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Atlantic County, NJ
⚡ Power here was restored about 17 hours ago — the outage peaked at 545 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 545 customers, restored in ~5.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Atlantic County, NJ
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,040 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
10 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.9 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~57,544 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 3.2 days. The busiest year on record here was 2015.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Atlantic County
Communities in Atlantic County include Atlantic City, Pleasantville, Hammonton, Somers Point, Ventnor City, Absecon, Northfield and Brigantine. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Atlantic County, NJ?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Atlantic include Atlantic City Electric — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
