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2025 Forsyth County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2025, customers in Forsyth County, NC went without power for an average of 15.9 hours, a total of 444K customer-hours (North Carolina average 9.8 hours). That ranks 29th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 467th of 3,000 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2024
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Forsyth County, 2025
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | August 1, 2025 07:15 | August 3, 2025 08:15 | 2d 1h | 6,769 | 32K |
| 2 | February 16, 2025 12:45 | February 18, 2025 05:15 | 1d 16h | 5,309 | 28K |
| 3 | June 19, 2025 13:15 | June 22, 2025 07:00 | 2d 17h | 5,162 | 67K |
| 4 | May 22, 2025 12:30 | May 23, 2025 06:00 | 17h 30m | 2,299 | 11K |
| 5 | July 12, 2025 13:15 | July 13, 2025 08:45 | 19h 30m | 2,217 | 8,418 |
| 6 | December 27, 2025 15:45 | December 28, 2025 02:00 | 10h 15m | 2,152 | 2,909 |
| 7 | June 27, 2025 09:30 | June 28, 2025 00:15 | 14h 45m | 2,067 | 1,249 |
| 8 | August 31, 2025 09:45 | August 31, 2025 23:30 | 13h 45m | 1,956 | 5,889 |
| 9 | January 3, 2025 13:45 | January 4, 2025 12:45 | 23h | 1,922 | 3,477 |
| 10 | September 10, 2025 13:15 | September 10, 2025 21:15 | 8h | 1,905 | 548 |
Outage episodes by size in 2025: 147 reached 100+ customers, 37 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2025, 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 2025; 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, 2025, 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/2025/north-carolina/forsyth-county