Over the past four years there have been nine house collapses, the National Park Service said. One house collapsed last month, possibly due to waves produced by Hurricane Ernesto despite being hundreds of miles from the Outer Banks, the Times reported.

Nine homes in the area have been lost to the ocean in the past four years because of rising seas and storms that erode shorelines.

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.

Two more Outer Banks houses have collapsed within the same day in Rodanthe, North Carolina, the eighth and ninth to do so in the past four years.

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.

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.

RODANTHE, N.C. (WTVD) -- Cleanup is underway after another Outer Banks home collapsed into the ocean Friday morning. It happened at Ga Kohler Court in Rodanthe. So far, the ocean has taken eight Outer Banks homes since 2020, but two in just the last six weeks.

After two oceanfront homes fell into the sea at the Outer Banks Friday, the main highway on the islands was flooded Saturday, North Carolina officials said.