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2021 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 29.5 hours, a total of 651K customer-hours (North Carolina average 10.3 hours). That ranks 18th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 301st of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 20, 2021 19:00 | June 21, 2021 05:30 | 10h 30m | 7,420 | 11K |
| 2 | September 3, 2021 04:30 | September 3, 2021 08:15 | 3h 45m | 5,666 | 1,581 |
| 3 | May 11, 2021 01:30 | May 11, 2021 23:00 | 21h 30m | 5,072 | 24K |
| 4 | April 23, 2021 13:15 | April 23, 2021 22:15 | 9h | 4,492 | 10K |
| 5 | May 7, 2021 10:45 | May 7, 2021 14:45 | 4h | 4,342 | 4,781 |
| 6 | June 17, 2021 12:00 | June 17, 2021 21:15 | 9h 15m | 3,184 | 25K |
| 7 | June 16, 2021 11:00 | June 16, 2021 21:45 | 10h 45m | 3,176 | 25K |
| 8 | June 2, 2021 11:15 | June 3, 2021 07:45 | 20h 30m | 3,003 | 21K |
| 9 | May 27, 2021 11:30 | May 27, 2021 21:00 | 9h 30m | 2,562 | 17K |
| 10 | June 15, 2021 12:30 | June 16, 2021 00:45 | 12h 15m | 2,513 | 18K |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 141 reached 100+ customers, 62 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 2021, 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) | 2021 | 3.1 hrs | 1.39 | 2.4 hrs | 1.34 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2021 | 2.5 hrs | - | 1.9 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 92% of North Carolina's customers in 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/north-carolina/harnett-county