County annual report · FIPS 37055
2025 Dare County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Dare County, NC went without power for an average of 5.3 hours, a total of 124K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 57th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 1432nd of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Dare County, 2025
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 6, 2025 13:00 | October 6, 2025 17:00 | 4h | 8,097 | 4,061 |
| 2 | October 6, 2025 04:30 | October 6, 2025 06:45 | 2h 15m | 8,089 | 10K |
| 3 | September 23, 2025 11:00 | September 23, 2025 13:00 | 2h | 8,088 | 13K |
| 4 | October 28, 2025 16:00 | October 28, 2025 16:15 | 15m | 8,076 | 2,019 |
| 5 | October 29, 2025 02:15 | October 29, 2025 05:45 | 3h 30m | 8,076 | 24K |
| 6 | May 3, 2025 03:00 | May 3, 2025 04:15 | 1h 15m | 8,063 | 8,099 |
| 7 | September 16, 2025 02:15 | September 16, 2025 06:45 | 4h 30m | 2,652 | 2,517 |
| 8 | April 4, 2025 17:45 | April 4, 2025 19:45 | 2h | 2,183 | 797 |
| 9 | April 22, 2025 12:30 | April 23, 2025 01:30 | 13h | 1,480 | 1,857 |
| 10 | March 19, 2025 13:00 | March 19, 2025 18:30 | 5h 30m | 1,309 | 1,220 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 59 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/dare-county