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2023 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 16.7 hours, a total of 465K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 31st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 520th of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2023
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 3, 2023 13:15 | October 3, 2023 23:15 | 10h | 21,048 | 12K |
| 2 | August 10, 2023 12:45 | August 11, 2023 12:30 | 23h 45m | 4,851 | 13K |
| 3 | February 17, 2023 18:00 | February 18, 2023 12:00 | 18h | 2,822 | 6,167 |
| 4 | August 31, 2023 06:30 | September 1, 2023 09:15 | 1d 2h | 2,782 | 6,989 |
| 5 | December 17, 2023 16:45 | December 18, 2023 09:15 | 16h 30m | 2,770 | 13K |
| 6 | March 3, 2023 11:45 | March 5, 2023 04:45 | 1d 17h | 2,563 | 15K |
| 7 | June 15, 2023 13:15 | June 16, 2023 10:15 | 21h | 2,539 | 2,102 |
| 8 | August 24, 2023 09:00 | August 26, 2023 01:45 | 1d 16h | 2,491 | 8,986 |
| 9 | January 18, 2023 12:45 | January 19, 2023 00:30 | 11h 45m | 2,431 | 3,282 |
| 10 | July 21, 2023 19:00 | July 22, 2023 05:00 | 10h | 2,423 | 4,062 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 165 reached 100+ customers, 57 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 2023, 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 | 2023 | 5.0 hrs | 1.68 | 3.3 hrs | 1.52 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.64 | 2.2 hrs | 1.37 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2023 | 6.2 hrs | 1.94 | 2.6 hrs | 1.22 |
| Town of High Point | 2023 | 2.0 hrs | 1.10 | 66 min | 0.81 |
| 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 n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/forsyth-county