Power outages in Delaware
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
12
customers reported out statewide · 2 counties reporting
Updated 11:36 PM EDT.
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Delaware counties (3)
Utility coverage in Delaware
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Delaware.
Historical outage patterns in Delaware
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 3,445 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Delaware between 2014 and 2025 across all 3 counties — 34 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 2.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (32% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2016.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~61,872 customers out in New Castle County in December 2023, restored after about 4.3 hr.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Delaware?
Electric utilities we track in Delaware include Delmarva Power. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.