– 0% of Bergen out 0 customers out in New Jersey

Power outage history

Bergen County New Jersey

3.9hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

12th most of 21 in New Jersey 40% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Isaias · Aug 4, 2020 34% of customers out · 90% back in 4.1 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 3.9h / yr State average 5.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.3 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 2.4days Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 5.2days Hurricane Isaias, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 98% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2020 20 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 418,357 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Bergen's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 20 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Bergen, hours without power per customer

BergenUS median countyNew Jersey average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Aug 4, 2020	Hurricane Isaias	140,979	34%	5.2 d	4.1 d	7.4M
Mar 7, 2018	Winter storm	45,405	11%	3.1 d	20 h	1.1M
Dec 24, 2020	Windstorm	19,790	5%	21 h	16 h	199k
May 15, 2018	Thunderstorms	19,656	5%	19 h	19 h	158k
Mar 3, 2018	Winter storm	6,705	2%	11 h	1.0 h	35k
Jul 8, 2021	Thunderstorms	8,007	2%	6.0 h	5.5 h	34k
Feb 24, 2016	Windstorm	9,182	2%	4.5 h	5.0 h	32k
Jan 12, 2018	No storm report	7,983	2%	6.2 h	6.5 h	31k
Sep 1, 2021	Hurricane Ida	8,254	2%	5.8 h	14 h	31k
Jul 6, 2021	Thunderstorms	11,653	3%	4.0 h	10 h	30k
Nov 15, 2020	Thunderstorms	9,754	2%	4.0 h	16 h	29k
Dec 18, 2023	Flooding	6,603	2%	5.8 h	11 h	27k
Jun 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	5,902	1%	5.5 h	17 h	23k
Jul 29, 2023	No storm report	11,102	3%	2.5 h	3.2 h	22k
Jun 8, 2021	Flooding	8,542	2%	4.0 h	2.8 h	22k
Apr 26, 2016	No storm report	16,906	4%	1.2 h	2.8 h	21k
Nov 30, 2022	No storm report	7,553	2%	4.2 h	3.2 h	21k
Feb 16, 2016	Windstorm	6,300	2%	6.0 h	2.2 h	21k
Nov 13, 2015	No storm report	6,160	1%	3.2 h	3.8 h	20k
Sep 2, 2021	Hurricane Ida	5,517	1%	5.5 h	10 h	19k
Jun 23, 2025	No storm report	7,181	2%	5.0 h	5.8 h	17k
Mar 2, 2018	Winter storm	8,643	2%	2.8 h	5.5 h	14k
Jul 6, 2020	Thunderstorms	7,139	2%	3.2 h	1.0 h	12k
Mar 11, 2018	No storm report	7,210	2%	3.5 h	15 h	12k
Apr 14, 2017	No storm report	7,313	2%	1.5 h	1.5 h	11k
Jan 15, 2016	No storm report	8,379	2%	1.2 h	3.2 h	10k
May 25, 2016	No storm report	7,097	2%	1.2 h	5.5 h	8.9k
Aug 25, 2020	Thunderstorms	9,728	2%	2.5 h	7.5 h	8.7k
Sep 23, 2021	No storm report	6,263	2%	1.5 h	1.2 h	8.6k
Jul 3, 2018	Thunderstorms	5,672	1%	3.8 h	6.2 h	8.5k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Bergen from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Tropical storm 80%
Winter storm 12%
Thunderstorms 3.6%
Windstorm 2.1%
No storm on record 1.9%
Flooding 0.6%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Bergen

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole New Jersey territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Public Service Elec & Gas Co	Investor Owned	66	43	0.72	25.0	2.1M
Rockland Electric Co	Investor Owned	144	106	1.30	23.2	67k
Borough of Park Ridge	NJ	–	–	–	–	32k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Westchester, NY 9.2 h
Rockland, NY 5.5 h
Passaic 4.1 h
Bergen (this county) 3.9 h
Essex 3.5 h
Hudson 1.2 h
Bronx, NY 1.1 h
New York, NY 0.1 h

Across New Jersey

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All New Jersey counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 418,357 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →