County annual report · FIPS 37067
2016 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 33.0 hours, a total of 920K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 38th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 89th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2016
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 24, 2016 10:00 | February 27, 2016 05:15 | 2d 19h | 16,198 | 290K |
| 2 | July 24, 2016 20:45 | July 26, 2016 05:30 | 1d 8h | 14,020 | 161K |
| 3 | May 12, 2016 16:45 | May 14, 2016 05:30 | 1d 12h | 6,078 | 24K |
| 4 | September 28, 2016 19:15 | September 29, 2016 06:45 | 11h 30m | 5,662 | 9,522 |
| 5 | July 8, 2016 13:30 | July 10, 2016 22:00 | 2d 8h | 5,421 | 94K |
| 6 | April 23, 2016 21:15 | April 24, 2016 05:15 | 8h | 5,308 | 2,629 |
| 7 | July 26, 2016 06:30 | July 26, 2016 07:30 | 1h | 3,562 | 3,562 |
| 8 | November 29, 2016 11:00 | November 30, 2016 02:45 | 15h 45m | 3,487 | 10K |
| 9 | January 12, 2016 13:15 | January 14, 2016 07:00 | 1d 17h | 3,404 | 14K |
| 10 | October 21, 2016 13:30 | October 22, 2016 08:45 | 19h 15m | 2,726 | 7,563 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 146 reached 100+ customers, 54 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2016, 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 | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 8.8 hrs | 2.25 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Town of High Point | 2016 | 2.1 hrs | 1.38 | 78 min | 0.93 |
| 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 2016; 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, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/forsyth-county