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Who serves Forsyth County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas, EnergyUnited EMC and Surry-Yadkin EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Town of High Point also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent company's combined picture, see Duke Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Forsyth County, NC
Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 215 customers, restored in ~6 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 27 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 5.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 5, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Forsyth County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,385 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
20 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
3.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~61,794 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 3.6 days. The busiest year on record here was 2022.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Cities we track in Forsyth County
Communities in Forsyth County include Winston-Salem, Kernersville, Clemmons, Lewisville, Walkertown, Rural Hall, Tobaccoville and Bethania. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
