Outer Banks is Netflix's North Carolina treasure-hunt drama, and search interest just reprinted a prior season-drop high. Google Search interest for the keyword outer banks hit 54 for the week of August 22 2026, up from 12 on August 15, 11 on August 8, 12 on August 1, and 9 on July 25. Trends MCP records a series-derived +500.0% 30-day rise from 9 and a +671.43% 90-day rise from 7 on May 23. get_growth returns +350.0% over 7 days (12 to 54) and +500.0% over 30 days (9 to 54), matching the weekly series endpoint. Netflix dropped all 10 episodes of the fifth and final season on August 20 2026, per Variety on June 18 2026 and Netflix Tudum. On the August 24 2026 Google Trends board the title is absent from the top 40. Data pulled August 24 2026 from source google search.
Outer Banks search interest right now
Google Search interest for outer banks sits at 54 for the week of August 22 2026, tied with October 12 2024 and 46% under the February 25 2023 peak of 100, after a one-week jump from 12 on August 15 that get_growth measures at +350.0%.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Latest value (week of August 22 2026) | 54 |
| 30-day change | +500.0% (9 on July 25 2026 to 54) |
| 90-day change | +671.43% (7 on May 23 2026 to 54) |
| Peak value | 100 on February 25 2023 |
| Next-highest 2024 week | 61 on November 16 2024 |
| Off-season floor (April 18 2026) | 8 |
| 7-day growth (get_growth) | +350.0% (12 to 54), recent date August 22 2026 |
| Google Trends rank (August 24 2026) | not in top 40 |
| Series length | 261 weekly points |
| First series week | August 28 2021 (value 38) |
Every row traces to the stored topics/data/outer-banks.json series or to same-day Trends MCP get_growth and get_top_trends pulls. Values sit on the normalized 0-100 Google Search scale. For the Google Search feed, see Google Trends. Another Netflix drop in the same window is tracked on Camp Rock 3.
About Outer Banks
Outer Banks is a Netflix teen adventure drama set on a fictionalized version of North Carolina's barrier islands, where working-class Pogues and wealthy Kooks collide over buried treasure, and the August 20 2026 finale is what reprinted search interest at 54. Jonas Pate, Josh Pate, and Shannon Burke created the series; it premiered on April 15 2020, per Collider. The regular cast includes Chase Stokes (John B), Madelyn Cline (Sarah Cameron), Madison Bailey (Kiara), Jonathan Daviss (Pope), Carlacia Grant (Cleo), and Drew Starkey (Rafe). Rudy Pankow's JJ was killed in the Season 4 finale, which Netflix Tudum treats as the wound Season 5 opens on.
Netflix renewed the show for a fifth and final season in November 2024, ahead of Season 4 Part 2. Variety on June 18 2026 set the premiere at August 20 and confirmed 10 one-hour episodes. Tudum says the first four seasons drew nearly 200 million views and landed on the English TV Top 10 list 25 times. Season 5 dumps the full run at once, a change from the split Season 4 release. Searchers hitting the term this week are checking finale plot points, cast returns, and where to stream, not a weather query for the real Outer Banks.
What the time series shows
The stored Google Search series for outer banks runs 261 weekly points from August 28 2021 through August 22 2026, opening at 38 and then spending long stretches in the single digits between Netflix season drops. It is a seasonal show curve, not a one-week news spike. Season 3 produced the all-time peak of 100 on February 25 2023 and 91 a week later on March 4. Season 4 reprinted 54 on October 12 2024 and 61 on November 16 2024. 2026 sat at 8 on April 18, 9 on July 25, 12 on August 15, then 54 on August 22, the first week that fully contains the August 20 drop.
Derived labels from the stored series are growth_label exploding, speed_label exponential, seasonality_label high, and volatility_label average. Exploding follows a +500.0% 30-day change and a +671.43% 90-day change, above the +100% and +500% thresholds. Exponential follows a recent 30-day absolute move of 45 versus a prior 30-day move of 1. High seasonality tracks season-drop peaks in February 2023, October and November 2024, and August 2026. Average volatility matches a week-over-week percent-change standard deviation of 45.09 across 260 steps. The latest value is 46% below the 2023 peak and is not falling.
Related topics
Same-day Trends MCP get_growth pulls on Google Search, recent date August 22 2026, put Outer Banks next to other entertainment queries that moved this month.
- camp rock 3: +618.18% over 30 days (11 to 79) and -21.0% over 7 days (100 to 79). Topic page: Camp Rock 3.
- lanterns: +546.15% over 30 days (13 to 84) and +236.0% over 7 days (25 to 84). Topic page: Lanterns.
- reacher: +478.57% over 30 days (14 to 81) and +19.12% over 7 days (68 to 81). Topic page: Reacher.
- jonas brothers: +733.33% over 30 days (9 to 75) and +316.67% over 7 days (18 to 75). jonas brothers tour ranked 38 on Google Trends on August 24 2026. Topic page: Jonas Brothers.
- insidious: +866.67% over 30 days (6 to 58) and +222.22% over 7 days (18 to 58). The horror title ranked 3 on the same Google Trends board.
- Source context: Google Trends.