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Who serves Sussex 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 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
⚡ Power here was restored about 5 hours ago — the outage peaked at 926 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 7, 2026 — peaked at 926 customers, restored in ~16 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 29 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, 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 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.
This page also serves Milford: its outages are counted in this county's total.
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.
