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2019 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 59.9 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 12th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 46th of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 13, 2019 03:15 | January 18, 2019 02:15 | 4d 23h | 44,871 | 1.0M |
| 2 | August 21, 2019 12:15 | August 24, 2019 07:30 | 2d 19h | 8,398 | 64K |
| 3 | April 19, 2019 12:15 | April 21, 2019 03:15 | 1d 15h | 6,377 | 39K |
| 4 | April 26, 2019 11:15 | April 28, 2019 07:30 | 1d 20h | 6,219 | 51K |
| 5 | November 24, 2019 14:15 | November 25, 2019 05:30 | 15h 15m | 6,185 | 11K |
| 6 | October 27, 2019 04:30 | October 27, 2019 14:00 | 9h 30m | 5,968 | 9,731 |
| 7 | November 23, 2019 16:15 | November 24, 2019 07:30 | 15h 15m | 4,999 | 7,748 |
| 8 | June 20, 2019 11:15 | June 22, 2019 03:00 | 1d 15h | 4,799 | 13K |
| 9 | June 7, 2019 12:15 | June 10, 2019 01:45 | 2d 13h | 4,473 | 55K |
| 10 | May 23, 2019 11:00 | May 24, 2019 00:15 | 13h 15m | 4,045 | 16K |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 132 reached 100+ customers, 53 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 2019, 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/forsyth-county