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2021 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 38.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 15th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 225th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2021
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 13, 2021 01:30 | February 16, 2021 07:15 | 3d 5h | 28,164 | 511K |
| 2 | August 14, 2021 20:45 | August 19, 2021 03:45 | 4d 7h | 9,415 | 117K |
| 3 | February 18, 2021 12:00 | February 19, 2021 10:30 | 22h 30m | 9,000 | 35K |
| 4 | December 6, 2021 13:15 | December 7, 2021 02:45 | 13h 30m | 6,969 | 1,904 |
| 5 | December 11, 2021 13:00 | December 12, 2021 20:00 | 1d 7h | 4,986 | 23K |
| 6 | May 3, 2021 15:45 | May 6, 2021 00:45 | 2d 9h | 4,972 | 5,622 |
| 7 | May 20, 2021 12:45 | May 20, 2021 21:30 | 8h 45m | 4,856 | 2,616 |
| 8 | June 7, 2021 12:00 | June 8, 2021 10:15 | 22h 15m | 4,594 | 11K |
| 9 | July 17, 2021 20:15 | July 19, 2021 00:15 | 1d 4h | 3,826 | 32K |
| 10 | July 28, 2021 07:15 | July 30, 2021 04:45 | 1d 21h | 3,734 | 13K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 173 reached 100+ customers, 66 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 3.5 hrs | 1.20 | 2.5 hrs | 1.10 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 2.1 hrs | 1.04 | 84 min | 0.90 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2021 | 4.4 hrs | 1.78 | 2.8 hrs | 0.78 |
| Town of High Point | 2021 | 4.9 hrs | 1.89 | 1.7 hrs | 1.09 |
| 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/forsyth-county