Cape Hatteras National Seashore said the unoccupied oceanfront home fell early Sept. 20 in Rodanthe, a roughly 215-mile drive southeast from Raleigh. The house is the eighth to collapse in the area during the past four years.

For the second time in 24 hours, someone’s home has collapsed into the Atlantic Ocean along North Carolina’s Outer Banks, according to the National Park Service. The latest was at 23009 G. A. Kohler Court in Rodanthe, which vanished after sunset Friday, Sept. 20, Cape Hatteras National Seashore reports.

Yet another home has collapsed into the rising surf along the Cape Hatteras National Seashore Friday night, showing the ongoing threat of erosion and rising sea levels to North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Eight homes have fallen into the ocean in Rodanthe, N.C., since 2020, and more in the Outer Banks remain vulnerable to higher tides and looming storms.

A third home has collapsed along Cape Hatteras National Seashore, highlighting the ongoing threat of erosion and rising sea levels to North Carolina's Outer Banks.

Dangerous debris may be present on the beach and in the water near the collapse site, according to the National Park Service.

Two beach cottages fell into the Atlantic Ocean on the Outer Banks of North Carolina Friday, the eighth and ninth houses lost to the sea in the last four years.

Another Outer Banks beach house collapsed into the ocean Friday morning, the second home to be washed away in the village of Rodanthe in less than a month.