See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
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customers reported out in Union 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 8, 10:30 PM EDT· its own reports for places here carry 3 different times, the earliest Oct 8, 6:00 PM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of 200+ customers in the same kind of weather ran ~5 hr start to finish (24 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 3:16 AM EDT.
25county-wide trend of customers without power · last 41 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
Plainfield City — 2 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 10:30 PM EDT
Union Twp — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 8:00 PM EDT
Elizabeth City — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 6:00 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 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 — Union County, NJ
Last significant outage: Oct 5, 2026 — peaked at 1,800 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 39 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.5 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 — Union County, NJ
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,925 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 28 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the New Jersey norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.3 hr.
Largest on record: ~77,985 customers out in August 2020, 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, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than
half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period
than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Union County include Elizabeth, Plainfield, Linden, Westfield, Rahway, Summit, Roselle and Roselle Park. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
This page also serves Elizabeth, Linden, New Providence, Plainfield, Rahway, Roselle, Roselle Park, Summit and Westfield: their outages are counted in this county's total.
