Home collapses overnight in Rodanthe

Debris field after home collapse on Surf Side Drive. Video from @hurricanetrack

An oceanfront home located at 23241 Surf Side Drive collapsed in northern Rodanthe overnight due to an ongoing coastal storm.

Additional homes in the area were also inundated with water, and visitors should avoid the shoreline due to dangerous debris and continual ocean overwash.

The home was built in 1991, and was a 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath structure, according to Dare County tax records. It was unoccupied at the time of the collapse, and Cape Hatteras National Seashore staff were at the site on Friday morning to assess the area.

“Efforts to respond to and begin cleanup operations is currently limited due to severe weather conditions and the closure of N.C. Highway 12 between the Basnight Bridge and Rodanthe,” stated CHNS in a Friday morning update.

“Cape Hatteras National Seashore is also monitoring unoccupied threatened structures at G A Kohler Court and Sea Oats Drive. The beach in front of Rodanthe is temporarily closed due to hazardous debris. The Seashore is also urging its visitors to avoid the beach and ocean for potentially many miles to the south of Rodanthe.”

Friday’s home collapse is the 6th Rodanthe home collapse in 2024, and the 11th Rodanthe home collapse since 2020.

On early Friday morning, September 20, a home collapsed at 23001 G A Kohler Court, causing severe damage to the pilings of a neighboring home at 23009 G A Kohler Court, which collapsed hours later at 9:15 p.m. A third house in a four-day timeframe collapsed at Tuesday, September 24, also at the end of G A Kohler Court.

The other 2024 home collapses included an unoccupied home on Corbina Drive that collapsed on August 16 and a home at the end of Ocean Drive in Rodanthe that collapsed on May 28.

On March 13, 2023, an oceanfront home collapsed at East Point Drive in Rodanthe, and on May 10, 2022, two unoccupied homes located on Ocean Drive collapsed within a 12-hour period.

In February 2022 and May 2020, two additional Rodanthe homes in the Ocean Drive vicinity also collapsed into the ocean.

All of these home collapses resulted in a large debris field on Hatteras Island, which was addressed and cleaned up by the National Park Service, local volunteers, and/or contractors enlisted by the homeowners themselves.

All homes were unoccupied and no injuries were reported in connection with any of the collapses.