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2018 Pulaski County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2018, customers in Pulaski County, VA went without power for an average of 89.8 hours, a total of 1.1M customer-hours (Virginia average 18.7 hours). That ranks 14th worst of 124 Virginia counties and 57th of 2,798 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2017
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2018
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | March 24, 2018 21:15 | April 1, 2018 14:30 | 7d 17h | 16,017 | 914K |
| 2 | March 21, 2018 02:45 | March 22, 2018 19:30 | 1d 16h | 3,071 | 21K |
| 3 | July 24, 2018 19:45 | July 25, 2018 01:00 | 5h 15m | 2,799 | 4,914 |
| 4 | June 26, 2018 04:45 | June 26, 2018 07:00 | 2h 15m | 2,785 | 6,266 |
| 5 | January 4, 2018 23:15 | January 6, 2018 00:45 | 1d 1h | 2,774 | 18K |
| 6 | October 10, 2018 16:15 | October 11, 2018 05:00 | 12h 45m | 2,706 | 6,238 |
| 7 | January 15, 2018 11:45 | January 15, 2018 20:45 | 9h | 2,056 | 6,117 |
| 8 | November 15, 2018 13:30 | November 17, 2018 02:45 | 1d 13h | 1,829 | 11K |
| 9 | August 30, 2018 14:30 | September 2, 2018 03:30 | 2d 13h | 1,764 | 4,372 |
| 10 | October 21, 2018 02:15 | October 22, 2018 00:30 | 22h 15m | 1,196 | 12K |
Outage episodes by size in 2018: 58 reached 100+ customers, 12 reached 1,000+ customers, 1 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 2018, 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 | 2018 | 19.3 hrs | 2.76 | 9.3 hrs | 2.25 |
| 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 96% of Virginia's customers in 2018; 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, 2018, 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/2018/virginia/pulaski-county