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2024 Harnett County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2024, customers in Harnett County, NC went without power for an average of 10.2 hours, a total of 225K customer-hours (North Carolina average 66.1 hours). That ranks 52nd worst of 94 North Carolina counties and 914th of 2,990 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2023
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Harnett County, 2024
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | December 11, 2024 16:30 | December 12, 2024 15:30 | 23h | 7,979 | 9,657 |
| 2 | August 8, 2024 03:00 | August 10, 2024 00:15 | 1d 21h | 5,868 | 44K |
| 3 | August 7, 2024 15:45 | August 8, 2024 01:45 | 10h | 4,905 | 23K |
| 4 | July 6, 2024 21:45 | July 7, 2024 06:30 | 8h 45m | 3,150 | 6,560 |
| 5 | January 9, 2024 17:45 | January 11, 2024 02:00 | 1d 8h | 2,856 | 22K |
| 6 | December 9, 2024 12:45 | December 9, 2024 20:00 | 7h 15m | 2,764 | 7,188 |
| 7 | July 1, 2024 03:00 | July 1, 2024 18:00 | 15h | 2,348 | 9,525 |
| 8 | August 18, 2024 21:45 | August 19, 2024 09:45 | 12h | 2,249 | 1,824 |
| 9 | May 27, 2024 03:15 | May 27, 2024 19:00 | 15h 45m | 2,188 | 5,764 |
| 10 | September 23, 2024 23:45 | September 24, 2024 01:15 | 1h 30m | 1,730 | 1,730 |
Outage episodes by size in 2024: 102 reached 100+ customers, 17 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 2024, 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) | 2024 | 17.2 hrs | 1.70 | 2.2 hrs | 1.22 |
| Central Electric Membership Corp. - (NC) | 2024 | 7.4 hrs | - | 2.5 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 2024; 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, 2024, 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/2024/north-carolina/harnett-county