When will the power be back in Gates County, NC?
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No significant county-wide outage reported in Gates County, NC right now.
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Elsewhere in North Carolina: 2,890 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
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Who serves Gates 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 — Gates County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 4, 2026 — peaked at 253 customers, restored in ~30 min (heat event).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 19, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Gates County, NC
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
100 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~4,753 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 37.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Gates County include Gatesville and Sunbury. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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