Power Outages in Chowan County, NC
No live outage feed is available for Chowan County, NC yet — live coverage depends on local utilities reporting to ODIN. In 2025, the average customer here lost power for about 0.4 hours.
Chowan County, NC is served by local tracked utilities.
Chowan 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.
- Heat AdvisoryMODERATE
Chowan County has been under 8 National Weather Service alerts recently — most recently a Heat Advisory on July 18, 2026.
- Heat Advisory ×4
- Flood Watch ×2
- Air Quality Alert ×1
- Tsunami Warning ×1
Hardest-hit cities in Chowan County
Where this event is concentrated across the county's towns and townships.
Historical reliability
In 2025, the average customer in Chowan County went about 0.4 hours without power. Peak simultaneous outage on record reached 3,308 customers.
Worst year here was 2020 (peak 3,308 customers out) · decade average 1.6 hrs without power per customer/yr.
| Year | Outage events | Peak customers out | Avg hrs/customer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | 979 | 0.7 |
| 2016 | 73 | 1,778 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 75 | 1,678 | 0.5 |
| 2018 | 78 | 378 | 0.2 |
| 2019 | 158 | 2,195 | 1.8 |
| 2020 | 187 | 3,308 | 6.6 |
| 2021 | 147 | 701 | 0.3 |
| 2022 | 138 | 2,327 | 0.9 |
| 2023 | 127 | 2,338 | 1.7 |
| 2024 | 178 | 2,351 | 1.5 |
| 2025 | 125 | 221 | 0.4 |
Relatively Moderate hurricanes exposure · 1.6 hrs/yr of outages over the last decade.
FEMA rates this county’s social vulnerability relatively high — outages hit harder where communities are less able to respond and recover.
All hazard rankings →Power outages in Chowan County: FAQ
- How often does Chowan County, NC lose power?
- Based on EAGLE-I records, Chowan County, NC logged 125 distinct outage events in 2025, averaging about 0.4 hours without power per customer over the year.
- What was the worst power outage in Chowan County, NC?
- The largest tracked outage peaked at 3,308 customers without power, beginning August 4, 2020 and lasting about 2d 16h.
- Is there a power outage in Chowan County, NC right now?
- No major outage is currently reported for Chowan County, NC. Live coverage depends on whether local utilities report to ODIN.
Outages are tracked at the county level; these ZIP codes fall within Chowan County.
27932, 27980
Machine-readable data: /api/v1/counties/37041 and /api/v1/counties/37041/history. Historical figures derive from the DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I dataset (EAGLE-I tracked roughly 0% of North Carolina customers).