When will the power be back in Union County, NJ?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · New Jersey
179
customers reported out in Union 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 177.
Official restoration time (JCP&L): Oct 4, 12:00 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — already running longer than the typical past outage here (~5 hr start to finish), based on 12 past outages
📊 Past outages like this here ran ~2.2–7 hr start to finish, based on 12 similar outages.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
🔔 Check back after the next update, or keep me updated — we'll alert you when a dependable restoration estimate is ready.
Updated 11:38 PM EDT.
2179 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 2.6 days · 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
Berkeley Heights Township — 177 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:00 AM EDT
Cranford Twp — 1 customer reported out
Elizabeth City — 1 customer reported out
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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.
Our restoration forecast is independent and unofficial, never the utility's commitment. How it works · How accurate it has been
Who serves Union 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 — Union County, NJ
Last significant outage: Oct 1, 2026 — peaked at 677 customers, restored in ~14.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 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 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 Union County
Elizabeth · Linden · New Providence · Plainfield · Rahway · Roselle · Roselle Park · Summit · Westfield
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.
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