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2016 Pulaski County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Pulaski County, VA went without power for an average of 12.2 hours, a total of 152K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.1 hours). That ranks 32nd worst of 128 Virginia counties and 279th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | November 29, 2016 03:30 | November 29, 2016 21:00 | 17h 30m | 3,172 | 11K |
| 2 | September 27, 2016 07:30 | September 27, 2016 13:45 | 6h 15m | 2,812 | 9,243 |
| 3 | September 19, 2016 12:30 | September 19, 2016 15:00 | 2h 30m | 2,809 | 7,020 |
| 4 | April 25, 2016 19:30 | April 26, 2016 02:00 | 6h 30m | 2,802 | 8,817 |
| 5 | October 1, 2016 12:15 | October 1, 2016 13:45 | 1h 30m | 2,782 | 4,173 |
| 6 | June 2, 2016 10:15 | June 2, 2016 16:00 | 5h 45m | 2,750 | 727 |
| 7 | January 12, 2016 20:30 | January 13, 2016 07:00 | 10h 30m | 2,383 | 9,769 |
| 8 | August 3, 2016 01:45 | August 3, 2016 06:00 | 4h 15m | 1,755 | 4,682 |
| 9 | December 6, 2016 12:45 | December 6, 2016 14:45 | 2h | 1,656 | 2,074 |
| 10 | December 6, 2016 15:30 | December 6, 2016 21:15 | 5h 45m | 1,656 | 2,926 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 52 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 Pulaski County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appalachian Power Co | 2016 | 12.6 hrs | 2.37 | 7.6 hrs | 2.09 |
| City of Radford - (VA) | - | - | - | - | - |
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 Virginia's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 12,413 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. Pulaski County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Pulaski County, VA annual power outage report, 2016, 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/2016/virginia/pulaski-county