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Power outage history

Forsyth County North Carolina

5.3hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

78th most of 100 in North Carolina 19% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Zeta · Oct 29, 2020 26% of customers out · 90% back in 2.3 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 5.3h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 0.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 45hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 3.3days Hurricane Zeta, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 91% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2020 9.7 hours without power, average customer

Electricity customers 239,501 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Forsyth's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2020 was the worst well-recorded year, at 9.7 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Forsyth, hours without power per customer

ForsythUS median countyNorth Carolina average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Oct 29, 2020	Hurricane Zeta	61,794	26%	3.3 d	2.3 d	1.7M
Oct 11, 2018	Hurricane Michael	47,381	20%	3.2 d	2.2 d	1.3M
Jan 13, 2019	Winter storm	44,871	19%	2.6 d	45 h	1.0M
Feb 13, 2021	Winter storm	28,164	12%	39 h	31 h	477k
Sep 30, 2022	Hurricane Ian	18,023	8%	27 h	14 h	339k
Jan 3, 2022	Winter storm	25,845	11%	34 h	31 h	317k
Feb 24, 2016	Thunderstorms	16,198	7%	31 h	21 h	267k
Jan 11, 2020	Thunderstorms	12,005	5%	17 h	18 h	159k
Dec 24, 2022	No storm report	21,954	9%	10 h	6.5 h	145k
Jul 24, 2016	No storm report	14,020	6%	18 h	26 h	142k
Jun 17, 2022	Thunderstorms	10,792	5%	21 h	25 h	105k
Jul 8, 2016	Thunderstorms	5,421	2%	24 h	22 h	92k
Dec 8, 2017	Winter storm	7,540	3%	19 h	20 h	90k
Dec 23, 2022	No storm report	13,068	5%	9.8 h	18 h	83k
Aug 8, 2024	Hurricane Debby	11,948	5%	13 h	12 h	83k
Sep 27, 2024	Hurricane Helene	6,527	3%	22 h	18 h	81k
Aug 14, 2021	Thunderstorms	9,415	4%	13 h	7.8 h	80k
Jul 5, 2022	Thunderstorms	14,034	6%	10 h	14 h	64k
Apr 13, 2020	Thunderstorms	9,911	4%	9.8 h	11 h	63k
Feb 26, 2015	Winter storm	10,764	4%	11 h	8.2 h	56k
Dec 9, 2018	Winter storm	7,041	3%	11 h	18 h	51k
Jun 19, 2025	Thunderstorms	5,162	2%	14 h	22 h	50k
Feb 14, 2015	No storm report	6,764	3%	15 h	18 h	48k
Apr 23, 2017	No storm report	6,002	3%	13 h	15 h	45k
Jun 8, 2019	No storm report	4,473	2%	11 h	–	39k
Apr 15, 2018	Thunderstorms	8,576	4%	6.2 h	17 h	37k
Dec 10, 2018	Winter storm	5,247	2%	12 h	11 h	36k
Aug 22, 2019	Thunderstorms	8,398	4%	9.0 h	17 h	36k
Jul 23, 2017	Thunderstorms	7,877	3%	7.0 h	11 h	35k
Jan 9, 2024	Thunderstorms	8,291	3%	7.2 h	8.0 h	34k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Forsyth from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Tropical storm 51%
Winter storm 28%
Thunderstorms 11%
No storm on record 9.1%
Windstorm 0.8%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Forsyth

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC	Investor Owned	216	172	1.35	13.4	2.0M
EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp	Cooperative	169	121	1.56	11.6	124k
Town of High Point	Municipal	109	86	1.39	11.7	39k
Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp	Cooperative	249	176	1.81	17.5	28k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Rockingham 11 h
Stokes 9.9 h
Guilford 8.2 h
Yadkin 6.1 h
Forsyth (this county) 5.3 h
Surry 5.2 h
Davidson 4.2 h
Davie 4.1 h

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 239,501 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →