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2024 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 22.2 hours, a total of 619K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 41st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 454th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 19, 2024 09:45 | March 20, 2024 01:45 | 16h | 13,190 | 3,663 |
| 2 | August 8, 2024 00:30 | August 11, 2024 04:45 | 3d 4h | 11,948 | 107K |
| 3 | January 9, 2024 10:15 | January 11, 2024 10:15 | 2d | 8,291 | 39K |
| 4 | March 25, 2024 13:15 | March 26, 2024 01:30 | 12h 15m | 7,089 | 1,921 |
| 5 | September 26, 2024 21:45 | September 30, 2024 03:30 | 3d 5h | 6,527 | 104K |
| 6 | May 4, 2024 10:45 | May 5, 2024 23:30 | 1d 12h | 6,348 | 12K |
| 7 | May 18, 2024 21:45 | May 19, 2024 20:15 | 22h 30m | 3,587 | 5,587 |
| 8 | March 27, 2024 02:45 | March 27, 2024 04:30 | 1h 45m | 3,558 | 3,114 |
| 9 | March 8, 2024 13:00 | March 9, 2024 07:45 | 18h 45m | 3,258 | 9,167 |
| 10 | July 4, 2024 16:00 | July 5, 2024 11:00 | 19h | 3,156 | 11K |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 152 reached 100+ customers, 50 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2024, 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 | 2024 | 78.6 hrs | 2.50 | 2.9 hrs | 1.26 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 7.1 hrs | 2.13 | 2.1 hrs | 1.33 |
| Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp | 2024 | 23.9 hrs | 3.06 | 3.5 hrs | 1.55 |
| Town of High Point | 2024 | 79 min | 0.83 | 65 min | 0.70 |
| 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/forsyth-county