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2018 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 73.1 hours, a total of 2.0M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 88th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 11, 2018 11:15 | October 17, 2018 07:00 | 5d 19h | 47,381 | 1.3M |
| 2 | April 15, 2018 05:45 | April 17, 2018 07:30 | 2d 1h | 8,576 | 60K |
| 3 | November 15, 2018 02:30 | November 16, 2018 03:15 | 1d | 7,576 | 22K |
| 4 | December 9, 2018 08:30 | December 12, 2018 07:45 | 2d 23h | 7,041 | 116K |
| 5 | March 1, 2018 22:15 | March 3, 2018 23:15 | 2d 1h | 6,674 | 51K |
| 6 | August 1, 2018 11:30 | August 4, 2018 01:15 | 2d 13h | 6,435 | 45K |
| 7 | June 1, 2018 18:30 | June 2, 2018 11:30 | 17h | 6,057 | 19K |
| 8 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 18, 2018 08:30 | 3d 4h | 4,476 | 70K |
| 9 | September 1, 2018 12:00 | September 3, 2018 04:00 | 1d 16h | 3,994 | 21K |
| 10 | February 4, 2018 16:15 | February 5, 2018 09:15 | 17h | 3,278 | 8,058 |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 154 reached 100+ customers, 36 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 13.1 hrs | 1.81 | 3.7 hrs | 1.19 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 10.9 hrs | 1.77 | 2.0 hrs | 1.07 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2018 | 8.0 hrs | 1.89 | 2.5 hrs | 1.05 |
| Town of High Point | 2018 | 12.1 hrs | 3.44 | 2.7 hrs | 1.88 |
| 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/forsyth-county