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6
customers reported out in Sussex County, DE
Reported as one combined county-wide total by Delaware Electric Cooperative · county-wide data
Combined from the live data of the utilities serving this county — the slower nationwide tally shows 5.
Official restoration time (Delmarva Power): Oct 4, 2:00 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~5 hr start to finish (12 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 11:36 PM EDT.
16county-wide trend of customers without power · last 9 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
Rehoboth Beach — 1 customer reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 2:00 AM 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 Delmarva Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Delaware Electric Cooperative, City of Milford, City of Seaford and 1 other 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 — Sussex County, DE
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 283 customers, restored in ~7.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 28 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Sussex County, DE
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,207 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 13 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~34,852 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 19.3 hr. 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.
Communities in Sussex County include Milford, Seaford, Georgetown, Millsboro, Laurel, Milton, Lewes and Selbyville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Sussex County, DE?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Sussex include Delmarva Power, Delaware Electric Cooperative, City of Milford 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.
