Power Outages in New Castle County, DE
No live outage feed is available for New Castle County, DE yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 3.9 hours.
New Castle County, DE is served by local tracked utilities.
New Castle County's utilities do not report live data to ODIN, so real-time outage counts aren't available here. The historical record below is complete.
- Tornado WatchEXTREME
- Flood WatchSEVERE
- Air Quality AlertUNKNOWN
New Castle County has been under 17 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Tornado Watch on July 18, 2026.
- Air Quality Alert ×5
- Flood Watch ×4
- Extreme Heat Watch ×2
- Coastal Flood Advisory ×2
- Heat Advisory ×2
- Tornado Watch ×1
Hardest-hit cities in New Castle County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
- Wilmingtonno active outage
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in New Castle County went about 3.9 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 61,872 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 28,933 customers out) · decade average 4.4 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 867 | 45,881 | 5.7 |
| 2016 | 712 | 16,832 | 3.8 |
| 2017 | 672 | 33,074 | 5.5 |
| 2018 | 652 | 44,559 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 581 | 16,080 | 2.8 |
| 2020 | 504 | 28,933 | 7.7 |
| 2021 | 471 | 6,971 | 2.1 |
| 2022 | 426 | 8,778 | 2.4 |
| 2023 | 381 | 61,872 | 4.5 |
| 2024 | 397 | 20,780 | 4.6 |
| 2025 | 415 | 27,045 | 3.9 |
Very High winter weather exposure · 4.4 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
Power outages in New Castle County: FAQ
- How often does New Castle County, DE lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, New Castle County, DE logged 415 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 3.9 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in New Castle County, DE?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 61,872 customers without power, beginning December 12, 2023 and lasting about 22h 30m.
- Is there a power outage in New Castle County, DE right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for New Castle County, DE. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Wilmington. Outage counts for these communities are reported at the New Castle County level shown above.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within New Castle County.
19701, 19702, 19703, 19706, 19707, 19709, 19710, 19711, 19713, 19716, 19717, 19720, 19730, 19731, 19732, 19733, 19734, 19735, 19736, 19801, 19802, 19803, 19804, 19805, 19806, 19807, 19808, 19809, 19810
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/10003 and /api/v1/counties/10003/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of Delaware customers).