Power Out Map
– 0% of Harnett out 0 customers out in North Carolina

Power outage history

Harnett County North Carolina

4.8hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

80th most of 100 in North Carolina 27% below the national median

Worst outage on record Hurricane Matthew · Oct 9, 2016 35% of customers out · 90% back in 4.0 days
Hours without power, average customer per year 4.8h / yr State average 8.3 h · national median 6.6 h
Major outages a year 0.6 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers
Typical time to restore 90% 18hours Median across major outages, from the peak
Longest single outage 5.1days Hurricane Matthew, over 1% of customers out
Outage hours on storm days 67% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here
Worst year 2018 14 hours without power, average customer
Electricity customers 83,402 EAGLE-I 2024 count · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Harnett's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025
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Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 14 hours for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Harnett, hours without power per customer

HarnettUS median countyNorth Carolina average
0 10 20 30 40 1.5 ’15 28 ’16 1.7 ’17 14 ’18 1.5 ’19 3.3 ’20 7.8 ’21 5.4 ’22 2.2 ’23 2.7 ’24 1.2 ’25 NC 8.3 US 6.6

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began Storm Peak out Share Lasted 90% restored Customer-hours
Oct 8, 2016 Hurricane Matthew 29,527 35% 5.1 d 4.0 d 1.6M
Sep 15, 2018 Hurricane Florence 22,331 27% 4.5 d 3.4 d 931k
Jan 22, 2016 Winter storm 19,153 23% 2.2 d 45 h 440k
Sep 30, 2022 Hurricane Ian 10,343 12% 32 h 24 h 178k
Sep 14, 2018 Hurricane Florence 20,032 24% 14 h 13 h 86k
Jul 23, 2016 No storm report 6,825 8% 7.2 h 6.5 h 42k
Aug 8, 2024 Hurricane Debby 5,868 7% 17 h 6.8 h 40k
Dec 24, 2022 No storm report 11,945 14% 6.5 h 5.0 h 38k
Jun 17, 2022 Thunderstorms 6,169 7% 16 h 16 h 33k
Jan 16, 2022 Winter storm 5,840 7% 12 h 9.8 h 29k
Aug 7, 2023 Thunderstorms 3,132 4% 12 h – 25k
Jun 17, 2021 No storm report 3,184 4% 8.5 h – 25k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

0% 25% 50% 75% 100% peak+24h+48h+72h+96h half back by +4h 90% by +16h

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

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What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Harnett from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

  • Tropical storm 57%
  • No storm on record 33%
  • Thunderstorms 7.7%
  • Winter storm 1.3%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Harnett

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole North Carolina territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility Type Outage min / yr Excl. major storms Outages / yr Residential ¢/kWh Customers
Duke Energy Progress Investor Owned 183 145 1.41 15.2 1.4M
South River Elec Member Corp Cooperative 107 85 – 14.6 46k
Central Electric Membership Corp. Cooperative 268 148 – 15.4 21k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Across North Carolina

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All North Carolina counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 83,402 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →