Forsyth County, North Carolina Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Forsyth County, North Carolina had 38 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 1.20 times the US outage time per person and 0.98 times the North Carolina rate. It ranks 48 of 95 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

4.2major outages per year

8 of 9years with a major outage

105 hrslongest major outage

Oct, Janhardest months

October and January made up 47% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Oct 29, 2020, reached 61,794 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 105.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

2015'152016'162017'172018'182019'192020'202021'212022'222023'23

Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	363,960	143	3
2016	835,744	142	5
2017	579,300	150	5
2018	1,945,716	164	6
2019	1,564,450	148	5
2020	2,274,164	144	5
2021	999,655	199	3
2022	1,556,950	217	6
2023	365,378	181	0

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Oct 29, 2020	105.0	61,794	1,675,951
Oct 11, 2018	103.5	47,381	1,330,838
Jan 13, 2019	66.5	44,871	1,022,746
Feb 13, 2021	62.0	28,164	510,143
Sep 30, 2022	44.0	18,023	350,903

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.