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2016 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 106.6 hours, a total of 2.4M customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 10th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 17th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | October 8, 2016 22:30 | October 15, 2016 03:00 | 6d 4h | 29,527 | 1.6M |
| 2 | January 22, 2016 16:30 | January 25, 2016 18:15 | 3d 1h | 19,153 | 444K |
| 3 | October 8, 2016 12:00 | October 8, 2016 17:45 | 5h 45m | 11,231 | 18K |
| 4 | May 19, 2016 08:15 | May 19, 2016 21:45 | 13h 30m | 7,642 | 9,451 |
| 5 | July 23, 2016 20:15 | July 24, 2016 06:30 | 10h 15m | 6,825 | 42K |
| 6 | August 8, 2016 15:00 | August 8, 2016 19:15 | 4h 15m | 6,557 | 3,189 |
| 7 | July 7, 2016 17:45 | July 8, 2016 23:15 | 1d 5h | 5,512 | 22K |
| 8 | July 24, 2016 23:45 | July 25, 2016 03:00 | 3h 15m | 5,053 | 13K |
| 9 | May 24, 2016 21:15 | May 25, 2016 01:15 | 4h | 5,012 | 4,551 |
| 10 | May 27, 2016 17:00 | May 27, 2016 22:45 | 5h 45m | 3,614 | 6,458 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 145 reached 100+ customers, 29 reached 1,000+ customers, 3 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 Harnett County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 Progress - (NC) | 2016 | 63.5 hrs | 3.55 | 3.0 hrs | 1.63 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2016 | 36.0 hrs | - | 12.9 hrs | - |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| South River Elec Member Corp | - | - | - | - | - |
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 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 22,060 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. Harnett County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Harnett County, NC annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/north-carolina/harnett-county