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2017 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 6.6 hours, a total of 146K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.0 hours). That ranks 43rd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 795th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | May 29, 2017 23:30 | May 30, 2017 06:30 | 7h | 6,810 | 9,517 |
| 2 | April 10, 2017 04:00 | April 10, 2017 04:45 | 45m | 5,820 | 2,737 |
| 3 | April 24, 2017 04:00 | April 24, 2017 05:45 | 1h 45m | 4,033 | 6,487 |
| 4 | March 29, 2017 04:15 | March 29, 2017 05:00 | 45m | 3,243 | 1,638 |
| 5 | June 9, 2017 04:30 | June 9, 2017 04:45 | 15m | 2,927 | 732 |
| 6 | January 7, 2017 09:30 | January 7, 2017 12:00 | 2h 30m | 2,468 | 4,937 |
| 7 | February 9, 2017 13:30 | February 9, 2017 18:15 | 4h 45m | 2,222 | 2,641 |
| 8 | October 23, 2017 21:45 | October 24, 2017 08:30 | 10h 45m | 2,043 | 4,500 |
| 9 | July 11, 2017 13:30 | July 12, 2017 04:30 | 15h | 1,918 | 4,889 |
| 10 | April 6, 2017 12:00 | April 6, 2017 21:30 | 9h 30m | 1,885 | 4,471 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 110 reached 100+ customers, 27 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 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 2017, 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) | 2017 | 3.2 hrs | 1.52 | 2.7 hrs | 1.47 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2017 | 3.1 hrs | - | 3.0 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/north-carolina/harnett-county