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2023 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 8.4 hours, a total of 185K customer-hours (North Carolina average 12.6 hours). That ranks 49th worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 983rd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2023
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 26, 2023 23:45 | June 27, 2023 19:15 | 19h 30m | 5,534 | 28K |
| 2 | May 14, 2023 10:30 | May 14, 2023 19:15 | 8h 45m | 5,532 | 6,851 |
| 3 | August 7, 2023 23:00 | August 9, 2023 06:45 | 1d 7h | 3,132 | 28K |
| 4 | September 22, 2023 20:45 | September 24, 2023 04:45 | 1d 8h | 2,236 | 8,769 |
| 5 | August 29, 2023 01:00 | August 29, 2023 09:45 | 8h 45m | 1,509 | 2,169 |
| 6 | April 18, 2023 12:15 | April 19, 2023 10:00 | 21h 45m | 1,338 | 2,983 |
| 7 | December 17, 2023 17:00 | December 18, 2023 06:45 | 13h 45m | 1,265 | 3,718 |
| 8 | February 9, 2023 19:30 | February 9, 2023 21:45 | 2h 15m | 1,185 | 298 |
| 9 | August 31, 2023 02:15 | August 31, 2023 20:45 | 18h 30m | 1,109 | 7,404 |
| 10 | May 28, 2023 05:00 | May 28, 2023 10:00 | 5h | 1,066 | 2,482 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 96 reached 100+ customers, 11 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 2023, 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) | 2023 | 3.7 hrs | 1.47 | 2.4 hrs | 1.22 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2023 | 5.3 hrs | - | 2.7 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 2023; 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, 2023, 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/2023/north-carolina/harnett-county