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2017 Pulaski County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2017, customers in Pulaski County, VA went without power for an average of 9.3 hours, a total of 115K customer-hours (Virginia average 3.7 hours). That ranks 28th worst of 125 Virginia counties and 577th of 2,786 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2016
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2017
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | January 18, 2017 13:45 | January 18, 2017 18:15 | 4h 30m | 4,060 | 6,885 |
| 2 | March 1, 2017 09:00 | March 3, 2017 04:00 | 1d 19h | 4,031 | 28K |
| 3 | October 19, 2017 16:00 | October 19, 2017 19:15 | 3h 15m | 3,852 | 1,945 |
| 4 | October 9, 2017 02:45 | October 10, 2017 02:30 | 23h 45m | 2,758 | 7,628 |
| 5 | October 30, 2017 01:30 | October 30, 2017 23:30 | 22h | 1,906 | 6,563 |
| 6 | May 31, 2017 12:45 | May 31, 2017 19:15 | 6h 30m | 1,474 | 1,913 |
| 7 | May 23, 2017 16:15 | May 26, 2017 00:45 | 2d 8h | 1,470 | 5,466 |
| 8 | October 23, 2017 11:45 | October 25, 2017 22:30 | 2d 10h | 951 | 19K |
| 9 | July 6, 2017 19:30 | July 6, 2017 21:00 | 1h 30m | 895 | 688 |
| 10 | May 17, 2017 20:45 | May 17, 2017 23:30 | 2h 45m | 797 | 1,110 |
Outage episodes by size in 2017: 32 reached 100+ customers, 7 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 2017, 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 | 2017 | 11.0 hrs | 2.18 | 7.4 hrs | 1.97 |
| 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 2017; 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, 2017, 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/2017/virginia/pulaski-county