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2017 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 8.7 hours, a total of 205K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 36th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 616th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 13, 2017 05:45 | December 13, 2017 11:15 | 5h 30m | 7,715 | 16K |
| 2 | July 28, 2017 17:15 | July 29, 2017 17:00 | 23h 45m | 7,701 | 144K |
| 3 | January 7, 2017 23:15 | January 8, 2017 11:15 | 12h | 3,577 | 4,300 |
| 4 | November 17, 2017 17:15 | November 17, 2017 20:45 | 3h 30m | 1,930 | 548 |
| 5 | August 18, 2017 18:30 | August 19, 2017 00:15 | 5h 45m | 1,487 | 1,102 |
| 6 | May 5, 2017 07:45 | May 5, 2017 17:30 | 9h 45m | 1,069 | 3,586 |
| 7 | April 28, 2017 07:15 | April 28, 2017 10:30 | 3h 15m | 807 | 2,323 |
| 8 | July 9, 2017 11:15 | July 9, 2017 18:15 | 7h | 765 | 619 |
| 9 | September 6, 2017 17:00 | September 6, 2017 17:15 | 15m | 751 | 188 |
| 10 | August 19, 2017 22:30 | August 20, 2017 06:30 | 8h | 691 | 340 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 47 reached 100+ customers, 6 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.0 hrs | 2.61 | 4.2 hrs | 2.50 |
| Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 30.1 hrs | 3.88 | 5.3 hrs | 0.76 |
| Virginia Electric & Power Co | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/dare-county