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2019 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 35.5 hours, a total of 839K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 16th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 92nd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 6, 2019 00:45 | September 10, 2019 00:45 | 4d | 31,918 | 676K |
| 2 | November 16, 2019 13:30 | November 19, 2019 01:15 | 2d 11h | 9,511 | 24K |
| 3 | August 19, 2019 12:00 | August 19, 2019 23:45 | 11h 45m | 9,273 | 8,184 |
| 4 | October 12, 2019 06:15 | October 13, 2019 04:15 | 22h | 7,943 | 46K |
| 5 | June 29, 2019 11:00 | June 29, 2019 15:45 | 4h 45m | 7,702 | 24K |
| 6 | September 13, 2019 13:45 | September 13, 2019 15:00 | 1h 15m | 4,728 | 4,726 |
| 7 | April 11, 2019 15:30 | April 11, 2019 20:30 | 5h | 3,946 | 2,007 |
| 8 | March 25, 2019 12:00 | March 25, 2019 12:30 | 30m | 3,937 | 1,969 |
| 9 | March 26, 2019 01:00 | March 26, 2019 03:15 | 2h 15m | 3,937 | 991 |
| 10 | February 28, 2019 14:00 | February 28, 2019 23:15 | 9h 15m | 3,932 | 1,326 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 45 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2019, 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 | 2018 | 56.8 hrs | 6.30 | 7.7 hrs | 3.98 |
| Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 2.2 hrs | 1.65 | 64 min | 1.24 |
| 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/dare-county