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2017 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 24.9 hours, a total of 696K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 19th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 220th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 20, 2017 11:15 | May 23, 2017 01:15 | 2d 14h | 12,290 | 24K |
| 2 | July 22, 2017 15:30 | July 25, 2017 06:15 | 2d 14h | 7,877 | 50K |
| 3 | December 8, 2017 14:00 | December 10, 2017 07:15 | 1d 17h | 7,540 | 100K |
| 4 | July 17, 2017 10:15 | July 20, 2017 10:30 | 3d | 6,577 | 43K |
| 5 | June 5, 2017 10:30 | June 7, 2017 07:15 | 1d 20h | 6,033 | 7,036 |
| 6 | April 23, 2017 18:15 | April 24, 2017 07:30 | 13h 15m | 6,002 | 25K |
| 7 | April 24, 2017 09:00 | April 25, 2017 08:00 | 23h | 4,994 | 40K |
| 8 | June 19, 2017 01:30 | June 19, 2017 23:15 | 21h 45m | 4,965 | 22K |
| 9 | December 25, 2017 04:45 | December 25, 2017 08:45 | 4h | 2,793 | 5,446 |
| 10 | August 14, 2017 17:45 | August 16, 2017 07:15 | 1d 13h | 2,765 | 3,836 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 149 reached 100+ customers, 54 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 8.8 hrs | 1.52 | 3.1 hrs | 1.11 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 3.0 hrs | 1.26 | 1.6 hrs | 1.02 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2017 | 4.9 hrs | 1.04 | 2.4 hrs | 0.93 |
| Town of High Point | 2017 | 2.2 hrs | 1.54 | 71 min | 1.18 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/forsyth-county