When will the power be back in Essex County, NJ?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
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customer reported out in Essex 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 (PSE&G): Oct 4, 1:30 AM EDT
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~2.1 hr, based on 24 past outages of any size in the same kind of weather.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:33 PM EDT.
11 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 2 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
Newark City — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 1:30 AM EDT
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Who serves Essex County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include PSE&G and JCP&L, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves and PSEG outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Essex County, NJ
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 387 customers, restored in ~21.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 38 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 31, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Essex County, NJ
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,438 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 39 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~85,509 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 5.4 days. 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 Essex County
Communities in Essex County include Newark, East Orange, Harrison, Caldwell, Glen Ridge, North Caldwell, Roseland and Essex Fells. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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