When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Kent County, DE?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Kent County, DE right now.
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Elsewhere in Delaware: 45 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 8:01 PM EDT.
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Who serves Kent County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Delmarva Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Delaware Electric Cooperative, City of Dover, Town of Smyrna and 2 others also serve parts of this county — we don't yet read their own live outage maps. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.

Outage history — Kent County, DE
Last significant outage: Oct 4, 2026 — peaked at 287 customers, restored in ~1.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 21 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.2 hr (median).
Every outage behind these figures (21)
BeganPeak outRestored inWeather
Oct 4, 2026287~1.3 hrno severe weather
Sep 25, 2026831~3.7 hrwind/storm
Sep 23, 2026226~48 minweather alert
Sep 23, 2026994~2 hrweather alert
Sep 18, 2026498~42 minno severe weather
Sep 17, 2026499~3 hrno severe weather
Sep 11, 2026232~42 minno severe weather
Sep 1, 2026764~18.2 hrheat event
Aug 31, 20261,006~1 hrno severe weather
Aug 29, 2026206~2.2 hrno severe weather
Aug 25, 2026465~48 minno severe weather
Aug 22, 20262,188~30 minno severe weather
Aug 21, 2026517~1.5 hrno severe weather
Aug 20, 20261,082~8.5 hrwind/storm
Aug 14, 20261,210~1.8 hrno severe weather
Aug 14, 2026274~2.5 hrno severe weather
Aug 10, 2026452~4.5 hrwind/storm
Jul 28, 20262,208~4 hrwind/storm
Jul 21, 2026374~2.3 hrweather alert
Jul 18, 20261,310~14.7 hrwind/storm
Jul 5, 20261,686~12.2 hrheat event
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 5, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Recent outages tracked in Dover

Dover's last tracked outage began Sep 26, peaked at 97 customers out, and was restored in 2 hours. Across the 2 outages tracked here, the typical (median) restoration ran 2 hours.

  • Sep 26 — 97 customers out, restored in 2 hours
  • Aug 21 — 183 customers out, restored in 2 hours
Tracked by this site from the serving utilities' own live outage maps (outages of 25+ customers; dates are local calendar days). These recent, city-level outages build on the longer-term federal record below.
Longer-term outage history — Kent County, DE
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 528 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Delaware norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~10,992 customers out in July 2020, restored after about 5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2017.
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 Kent County include Dover, Smyrna, Clayton, Camden, Harrington, Cheswold, Wyoming and Felton. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

This page also serves Dover and Smyrna: their outages are counted in this county's total, and the outages tracked in Dover are listed with the outage history above.

Common questions

How do I report a power outage in Kent County, DE?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Kent include Delmarva Power, Delaware Electric Cooperative, City of Dover and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

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