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2018 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 54.9 hours, a total of 1.2M customer-hours (North Carolina average 55.2 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 114th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 15, 2018 04:00 | September 21, 2018 23:30 | 6d 19h | 22,331 | 936K |
| 2 | September 14, 2018 01:30 | September 14, 2018 21:45 | 20h 15m | 20,032 | 88K |
| 3 | July 22, 2018 03:00 | July 23, 2018 03:45 | 1d | 4,604 | 27K |
| 4 | October 21, 2018 04:00 | October 21, 2018 04:15 | 15m | 3,856 | 964 |
| 5 | July 1, 2018 04:15 | July 1, 2018 04:45 | 30m | 2,757 | 1,134 |
| 6 | June 11, 2018 15:15 | June 12, 2018 16:30 | 1d 1h | 2,625 | 9,973 |
| 7 | February 15, 2018 12:45 | February 15, 2018 19:30 | 6h 45m | 2,383 | 613 |
| 8 | June 13, 2018 09:45 | June 13, 2018 18:00 | 8h 15m | 2,253 | 4,710 |
| 9 | July 1, 2018 08:15 | July 1, 2018 08:45 | 30m | 2,168 | 1,058 |
| 10 | October 11, 2018 16:00 | October 14, 2018 02:00 | 2d 10h | 2,089 | 35K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 98 reached 100+ customers, 17 reached 1,000+ customers, 2 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 2018, 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) | 2018 | 43.0 hrs | 2.71 | 2.6 hrs | 1.33 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2018 | 22.4 hrs | - | 5.6 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 82% of North Carolina's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/north-carolina/harnett-county