See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
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Who serves Somerset 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 — Somerset County, NJ
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 415 customers, restored in ~42 min (no severe weather).
Across the 30 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.9 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 3, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Somerset County, NJ
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,565 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
14 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~36,937 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 5.2 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 Somerset County
Communities in Somerset County include North Plainfield, Somerville, Bound Brook, Manville, Raritan, Bernardsville, Watchung and South Bound Brook. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
