County annual report · FIPS 37055
2015 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 1.1 hours, a total of 27K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 81st worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 1692nd of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 1, 2015 18:00 | October 2, 2015 04:00 | 10h | 3,360 | 2,664 |
| 2 | July 3, 2015 01:15 | July 3, 2015 16:30 | 15h 15m | 3,023 | 4,596 |
| 3 | December 20, 2015 15:30 | December 20, 2015 15:45 | 15m | 2,448 | 612 |
| 4 | October 12, 2015 12:30 | October 12, 2015 15:30 | 3h | 2,090 | 1,957 |
| 5 | July 6, 2015 15:15 | July 6, 2015 21:30 | 6h 15m | 657 | 1,125 |
| 6 | July 10, 2015 19:15 | July 10, 2015 23:00 | 3h 45m | 608 | 174 |
| 7 | October 22, 2015 12:15 | October 22, 2015 15:15 | 3h | 480 | 1,205 |
| 8 | June 10, 2015 05:15 | June 10, 2015 08:45 | 3h 30m | 421 | 502 |
| 9 | August 26, 2015 10:15 | August 26, 2015 19:15 | 9h | 408 | 1,255 |
| 10 | October 5, 2015 13:30 | October 5, 2015 22:30 | 9h | 360 | 386 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 19 reached 100+ customers, 4 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Dare County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tideland Electric Member Corp | 2015 | 7.1 hrs | 2.93 | 4.1 hrs | 2.33 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 23,623 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Dare County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Dare County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/north-carolina/dare-county