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2015 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2015, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 15.3 hours, a total of 427K customer-hours (North Carolina average 7.5 hours). That ranks 17th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 164th of 2,484 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2015
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 26, 2015 05:45 | February 28, 2015 03:30 | 1d 21h | 10,764 | 64K |
| 2 | February 14, 2015 20:15 | February 16, 2015 02:15 | 1d 6h | 6,764 | 55K |
| 3 | October 1, 2015 12:30 | October 6, 2015 02:45 | 4d 14h | 4,273 | 50K |
| 4 | September 29, 2015 09:45 | October 1, 2015 00:30 | 1d 14h | 4,036 | 30K |
| 5 | November 18, 2015 18:30 | November 20, 2015 06:15 | 1d 11h | 3,583 | 6,806 |
| 6 | January 8, 2015 02:30 | January 9, 2015 03:45 | 1d 1h | 3,408 | 10K |
| 7 | September 22, 2015 10:30 | September 22, 2015 11:45 | 1h 15m | 3,199 | 2,960 |
| 8 | October 28, 2015 06:15 | October 28, 2015 16:45 | 10h 30m | 3,041 | 2,422 |
| 9 | February 22, 2015 19:15 | February 23, 2015 00:30 | 5h 15m | 2,816 | 2,492 |
| 10 | February 2, 2015 11:15 | February 3, 2015 06:00 | 18h 45m | 2,774 | 5,286 |
Outage episodes by size in 2015: 123 reached 100+ customers, 39 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Forsyth County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2015, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2015 | 5.3 hrs | 1.29 | 2.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.2 hrs | 1.12 | 1.6 hrs | 0.96 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2015 | 2.9 hrs | 1.25 | 1.6 hrs | 0.84 |
| Town of High Point | 2015 | 1.6 hrs | 1.25 | 60 min | 0.89 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2015; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 27,915 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Forsyth County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Forsyth County, NC annual power outage report, 2015, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2015/north-carolina/forsyth-county