When will the power be back in Salem County, NJ?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Salem County, NJ right now.
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Elsewhere in New Jersey: 261 customers reported out — statewide status.
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Who serves Salem 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 — Salem County, NJ
⚡ Power here was restored about 45 hours ago — the outage peaked at 301 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 301 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 13 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 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 — Salem County, NJ
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
511 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 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: ~15,558 customers out in June 2015, restored after about 5 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 covered
Communities in Salem County include Penns Grove, Woodstown, Elmer, Alloway, Auburn, Carneys Point, Elsinboro and Hancocks Bridge. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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