Note: The video above is from a previous report made before the 8th house collapsed in Buxton.
BUXTON, N.C. (WNCN) — Another house collapsed Thursday afternoon in Buxton along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, making the eighth one to have fallen in three days.
According to officials with Cape Hatteras National Seashore, a house at 46221 Tower Circle Road in Buxton collapsed into the water shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday. It is the fifth unoccupied house along that road to have fallen this week, with the three others located nearby on Cottage Avenue.
Parts of the North Carolina coast have been battered this week by large waves caused by far-off hurricanes Imelda and Humberto. The water conditions leave oceanfront homes like those in the Outer Banks — many of which have already had their foundations compromised due to erosion and previous storms — especially vulnerable to collapse.
According to numbers from the National Park Service, which runs Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the house that fell Wednesday is the ninth one in Buxton to have collapsed since this year, and all of them have happened since Sept. 16. In 2024, six houses further north in Rodanthe.
NPS’ threatened oceanfront structures website now counts 20 homes that have collapsed along Cape Hatteras National Seashore since 2020.
Hannah Leyva
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