When will the power be back in Dare County, NC?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Dare County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 867 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 3:31 AM EDT.
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Who serves Dare County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include NC Electric Cooperatives and Dominion Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Dare County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 3,433 customers, restored in ~3.3 hr (wind/storm).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 7, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Dare County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
314 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 3 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~2 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~31,918 customers out in September 2019, restored after about 38.5 hr.
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 Dare County include Kill Devil Hills, Kitty Hawk, Southern Shores, Nags Head, Manteo, Duck, Avon and Buxton. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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