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2020 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 7.4 hours, a total of 175K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 72nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1033rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2020
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 2, 2020 23:30 | August 3, 2020 15:00 | 15h 30m | 8,792 | 47K |
| 2 | February 28, 2020 03:30 | February 28, 2020 03:45 | 15m | 7,916 | 1,979 |
| 3 | November 1, 2020 18:45 | November 2, 2020 00:15 | 5h 30m | 7,727 | 7,762 |
| 4 | November 13, 2020 01:30 | November 13, 2020 03:45 | 2h 15m | 7,723 | 6,654 |
| 5 | October 30, 2020 10:30 | October 30, 2020 19:00 | 8h 30m | 7,366 | 18K |
| 6 | March 10, 2020 12:45 | March 10, 2020 19:30 | 6h 45m | 4,003 | 17K |
| 7 | February 4, 2020 21:30 | February 4, 2020 23:45 | 2h 15m | 4,001 | 3,548 |
| 8 | April 28, 2020 11:30 | April 28, 2020 11:45 | 15m | 3,992 | 998 |
| 9 | April 1, 2020 03:00 | April 1, 2020 20:00 | 17h | 3,853 | 4,301 |
| 10 | April 1, 2020 22:00 | April 2, 2020 03:00 | 5h | 3,458 | 943 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 61 reached 100+ customers, 15 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 14.1 hrs | 4.28 | 4.3 hrs | 3.14 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/dare-county