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Who serves Beaufort County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NC Electric Cooperatives, Duke Energy Carolinas and Dominion Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Washington and Town of Belhaven 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. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves and Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Beaufort County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 3,375 customers, restored in ~3.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 11, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Beaufort County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
277 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
1 major event of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~10,377 customers out in September 2018, restored after about 33 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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 covered
Communities in Beaufort County include Washington, Belhaven, Chocowinity, Aurora, Washington Park, Bath, Pantego and Bayview. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
