When will the power be back in Cape May County, NJ?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
15
customers reported out in Cape May County, NJ
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Atlantic City Electric): Oct 4, 7:00 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~5 hr start to finish (5 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 5:23 AM EDT.
415 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 6 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Lower Twp — 15 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 7:00 AM EDT
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Who serves Cape May 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 — Cape May County, NJ
Last significant outage: Sep 28, 2026 — peaked at 283 customers, restored in ~5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 21, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Cape May County, NJ
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
656 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 11 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~76,550 customers out in June 2015, restored after about 5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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 Cape May County
Communities in Cape May County include Ocean City, Wildwood, North Wildwood, Wildwood Crest, Sea Isle City, Woodbine, Avalon and West Cape May. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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