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Who serves New Hanover County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — New Hanover County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 360 customers, restored in ~5.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 16 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — New Hanover County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
920 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
11 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~114,738 customers out in September 2018, restored after about 32.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
Cities we track in New Hanover County
Communities in New Hanover County include Wilmington, Carolina Beach, Wrightsville Beach, Kure Beach, Bayshore, Blue Clay Farms, Castle Hayne and Hightsville. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
