See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
5
customers reported out in Ocean County, NJ
Reported as one combined county-wide total by Jersey Central Power & Light Co · county-wide data
Combined from the live data of the utilities serving this county — the slower nationwide tally shows 1.
Official restoration time (Atlantic City Electric): Oct 4, 3:00 AM EDT
Official restoration time (JCP&L): Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~3 hr start to finish (23 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:38 PM EDT.
05county-wide trend of customers without power · last 42 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
Surf City Boro — <5 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 3:00 AM EDT
Toms River Township — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
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An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include JCP&L and Atlantic City Electric, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Seaside Heights Municipal Utility and Borough of Lavallette also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Ocean County, NJ
Last significant outage: Sep 30, 2026 — peaked at 256 customers, restored in ~10.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 36 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 14, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Ocean County, NJ
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
2,399 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 67 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the New Jersey norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~216,332 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 3.8 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.
Communities in Ocean County include Point Pleasant, Beachwood, Point Pleasant Beach, South Toms River, Tuckerton, Lakehurst, Seaside Heights and Pine Beach. 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 Ocean County, NJ?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Ocean include JCP&L, Atlantic City Electric, Seaside Heights Municipal Utility and others — 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.
