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2020 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 12.7 hours, a total of 281K customer-hours (North Carolina average 20.3 hours). That ranks 51st worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 634th of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2020
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 8, 2020 18:00 | September 9, 2020 02:15 | 8h 15m | 7,296 | 2,819 |
| 2 | September 10, 2020 20:45 | September 10, 2020 21:00 | 15m | 7,169 | 1,792 |
| 3 | May 1, 2020 22:45 | May 2, 2020 00:30 | 1h 45m | 6,711 | 1,752 |
| 4 | June 2, 2020 20:30 | June 2, 2020 23:45 | 3h 15m | 4,552 | 7,498 |
| 5 | October 31, 2020 21:45 | November 1, 2020 07:30 | 9h 45m | 3,129 | 2,499 |
| 6 | September 29, 2020 21:30 | September 30, 2020 05:00 | 7h 30m | 2,985 | 4,644 |
| 7 | February 7, 2020 11:30 | February 8, 2020 18:30 | 1d 7h | 2,438 | 13K |
| 8 | April 13, 2020 05:45 | April 14, 2020 19:15 | 1d 13h | 2,226 | 11K |
| 9 | May 23, 2020 18:15 | May 24, 2020 03:00 | 8h 45m | 2,009 | 2,153 |
| 10 | July 28, 2020 21:30 | July 30, 2020 02:45 | 1d 5h | 1,770 | 7,165 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 140 reached 100+ customers, 19 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 2020, 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) | 2020 | 5.2 hrs | 1.81 | 2.3 hrs | 1.37 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2020 | 4.4 hrs | - | 1.8 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 91% of North Carolina's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/north-carolina/harnett-county