Power outages in Surf City, NC
Live outages for Surf City and the surrounding area, updated every 10 minutes. Surf City has 5,142 residents.
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Surf CityPender County
Outage history in Pender County, which includes Surf City
2014–2025 recordPender County averaged 35.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for North Carolina counties.
In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 38. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 9.5 hours, starting September 29, 2025.
The largest on record began August 4, 2020, with 29,214 customers out at once.
35.3significant outages a year (2023–2025)
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At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.1.5 hourstypical (median) length
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Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.9.9 dayslongest on record (September 2018)
29,214most customers out at once
| Largest events (start) | Peak out | LastediHow long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power. | Customer-hoursiCustomers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours. |
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| August 4, 2020 | 29,214 | 1.9 days | 498,874 |
| September 13, 2018 | 20,660 | 9.9 days | 2,346,122 |
| October 8, 2016 | 14,719 | 4.4 days | 437,550 |
| September 5, 2019 | 9,316 | 31 hours | 83,433 |
| January 2, 2024 | 7,667 | 6.5 hours | 13,285 |
Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).i
From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.