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2020 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 84.3 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 11th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 82nd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2020
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 29, 2020 12:30 | November 3, 2020 05:30 | 4d 17h | 61,794 | 1.7M |
| 2 | May 3, 2020 11:45 | May 4, 2020 01:15 | 13h 30m | 26,437 | 36K |
| 3 | January 12, 2020 00:45 | January 14, 2020 13:30 | 2d 12h | 12,005 | 170K |
| 4 | February 7, 2020 10:15 | February 8, 2020 07:30 | 21h 15m | 10,078 | 36K |
| 5 | April 12, 2020 23:45 | April 15, 2020 00:30 | 2d | 9,911 | 75K |
| 6 | July 20, 2020 12:00 | July 21, 2020 00:00 | 12h | 4,958 | 10K |
| 7 | August 6, 2020 22:30 | August 7, 2020 23:30 | 1d 1h | 4,391 | 18K |
| 8 | November 30, 2020 13:00 | December 2, 2020 04:30 | 1d 15h | 4,288 | 18K |
| 9 | May 19, 2020 06:30 | May 22, 2020 07:15 | 3d | 3,549 | 33K |
| 10 | July 5, 2020 09:45 | July 7, 2020 09:45 | 2d | 3,440 | 14K |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 125 reached 100+ customers, 43 reached 1,000+ customers, 4 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 11.2 hrs | 1.71 | 3.1 hrs | 1.18 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 10.0 hrs | 1.79 | 2.2 hrs | 1.14 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2020 | 7.0 hrs | 2.00 | 2.6 hrs | 1.40 |
| Town of High Point | 2020 | 3.5 hrs | 2.19 | 2.4 hrs | 1.83 |
| 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/forsyth-county