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Who serves Guilford County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Duke Energy Carolinas and EnergyUnited 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 — Guilford County, NC
⚡ Power here was restored about 25 hours ago — the outage peaked at 465 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 465 customers, restored in ~42 min (no severe weather).
Across the 40 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Guilford County, NC
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,540 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
27 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the North Carolina norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3 hr.
Largest on record: ~95,814 customers out in October 2018, restored after about 4.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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 Guilford County
Communities in Guilford County include Greensboro, High Point, Summerfield, Gibsonville, Oak Ridge, Stokesdale, Pleasant Garden and Jamestown. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Guilford County, NC?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Guilford include Duke Energy Carolinas, EnergyUnited EMC and Town of High Point — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
