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2022 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2022, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 59.2 hours, a total of 1.7M customer-hours (North Carolina average 21.3 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 57th of 2,976 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2021
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2022
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 3, 2022 04:45 | January 6, 2022 02:15 | 2d 21h | 25,845 | 329K |
| 2 | December 22, 2022 19:30 | December 26, 2022 05:45 | 3d 10h | 21,954 | 268K |
| 3 | September 30, 2022 07:00 | October 3, 2022 06:45 | 2d 23h | 18,023 | 355K |
| 4 | October 4, 2022 10:45 | October 5, 2022 03:15 | 16h 30m | 16,482 | 13K |
| 5 | July 5, 2022 12:45 | July 9, 2022 17:15 | 4d 4h | 14,034 | 84K |
| 6 | June 17, 2022 10:00 | June 20, 2022 00:30 | 2d 14h | 10,792 | 118K |
| 7 | July 20, 2022 10:15 | July 22, 2022 05:15 | 1d 19h | 4,835 | 8,988 |
| 8 | March 12, 2022 03:00 | March 14, 2022 05:45 | 2d 2h | 4,103 | 36K |
| 9 | August 11, 2022 11:00 | August 12, 2022 01:15 | 14h 15m | 3,795 | 12K |
| 10 | February 11, 2022 12:15 | February 12, 2022 00:15 | 12h | 3,493 | 2,755 |
Outage episodes by size in 2022: 170 reached 100+ customers, 79 reached 1,000+ customers, 6 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 2022, 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 | 2022 | 7.1 hrs | 1.93 | 3.1 hrs | 1.35 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 4.9 hrs | 1.87 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2022 | 9.8 hrs | 2.50 | 2.7 hrs | 1.34 |
| Town of High Point | 2022 | 5.4 hrs | 2.90 | 3.0 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2022; 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, 2022, 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/2022/north-carolina/forsyth-county