When will the power be back in North Plainfield, NJ?
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North Plainfield is a borough of about 23,072 residents in Somerset County.
PSE&G has reported outages for North Plainfield by name on its own public outage map (most recently observed 2026-09-18) — so when North Plainfield is affected, this page can show the city's own customers-out count and restoration time rather than only the county-wide total.
Around North Plainfield: the closest other places we track are Plainfield, about 1 miles to the east; South Plainfield, about 3 miles to the south; Middlesex, about 5 miles to the southwest; and Westfield, about 5 miles to the northeast. Also nearby: New Providence (6 mi N), Bound Brook (6 mi SW), Metuchen (7 mi SE), Summit (8 mi NE), Rahway (8 mi E), Highland Park (8 mi S), Chatham (9 mi N) and New Brunswick (9 mi S).
Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Madison (10 mi); northeast toward East Orange (16 mi); east toward Roselle Park (10 mi); southeast toward Perth Amboy (11 mi); south toward South River (13 mi); southwest toward Manville (10 mi); west toward Somerville (10 mi); and northwest toward Hopatcong (26 mi).
Who serves North Plainfield?
We track live outage data from PSE&G and JCP&L in Somerset County — but several utilities can serve one county, so confirm your own by searching your address on the live map. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see FirstEnergy outages across every state it serves and PSEG outages across every state it serves.
County context: across all of Somerset County, federal outage records (EAGLE-I, 2014–2025) show outages of 200+ customers typically restored in about 2.3 hr. The full record for Somerset County
