Thousands without power Tuesday night in Durham; cause unclear

WRAL · last updated August 4, 2026 – 7:00 PM

Thousands of people lost power Tuesday night in Durham.

According to a Duke Energy outage map, more than 7,000 customers are currently without power in Durham. The majority of the outages were in the southern part of Durham.

While Durham has a strong line of storms moving through the area, it is unclear what caused the outage. Duke Energy is estimating the outage will be resolved by 2:15 a.m. Wednesday.

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