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2019 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2019, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 5.7 hours, a total of 127K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.9 hours). That ranks 61st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 963rd of 2,945 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2018
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2019
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | February 12, 2019 15:00 | February 13, 2019 09:30 | 18h 30m | 13,627 | 5,750 |
| 2 | December 19, 2019 15:00 | December 19, 2019 21:30 | 6h 30m | 11,573 | 2,902 |
| 3 | April 21, 2019 10:30 | April 21, 2019 19:45 | 9h 15m | 1,895 | 5,471 |
| 4 | January 20, 2019 13:00 | January 21, 2019 00:30 | 11h 30m | 1,850 | 3,604 |
| 5 | June 8, 2019 22:30 | June 9, 2019 00:30 | 2h | 1,767 | 2,652 |
| 6 | May 19, 2019 17:30 | May 20, 2019 00:00 | 6h 30m | 1,603 | 2,809 |
| 7 | April 8, 2019 19:15 | April 9, 2019 10:15 | 15h | 1,530 | 4,368 |
| 8 | July 23, 2019 18:00 | July 24, 2019 03:30 | 9h 30m | 1,446 | 1,980 |
| 9 | March 31, 2019 12:15 | March 31, 2019 22:45 | 10h 30m | 1,316 | 4,625 |
| 10 | April 19, 2019 15:00 | April 20, 2019 21:00 | 1d 6h | 1,298 | 9,189 |
Outage episodes by size in 2019: 86 reached 100+ customers, 13 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 2019, 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 90% of North Carolina's customers in 2019; 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, 2019, 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/2019/north-carolina/harnett-county