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2024 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 2.9 hours, a total of 69K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 80th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 2129th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 3, 2024 15:15 | January 3, 2024 19:30 | 4h 15m | 7,994 | 11K |
| 2 | May 14, 2024 13:00 | May 15, 2024 19:45 | 1d 6h | 2,543 | 3,797 |
| 3 | December 30, 2024 20:30 | December 31, 2024 01:30 | 5h | 2,356 | 762 |
| 4 | March 23, 2024 04:15 | March 23, 2024 05:45 | 1h 30m | 2,249 | 1,087 |
| 5 | December 21, 2024 11:45 | December 21, 2024 19:30 | 7h 45m | 2,096 | 4,011 |
| 6 | January 9, 2024 23:00 | January 11, 2024 01:00 | 1d 2h | 1,694 | 19K |
| 7 | September 24, 2024 12:30 | September 24, 2024 16:45 | 4h 15m | 1,413 | 801 |
| 8 | March 11, 2024 03:30 | March 11, 2024 08:45 | 5h 15m | 1,120 | 1,744 |
| 9 | December 30, 2024 14:00 | December 30, 2024 15:00 | 1h | 1,112 | 835 |
| 10 | March 24, 2024 10:15 | March 24, 2024 17:00 | 6h 45m | 841 | 1,098 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 36 reached 100+ customers, 9 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 4.5 hrs | 2.54 | 2.6 hrs | 1.83 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/dare-county