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2020 Pulaski County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2020, customers in Pulaski County, VA went without power for an average of 11.6 hours, a total of 144K customer-hours (Virginia average 6.1 hours). That ranks 40th worst of 129 Virginia counties and 683rd of 3,019 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2019
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2020
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 24, 2020 19:30 | December 26, 2020 03:15 | 1d 7h | 2,818 | 10K |
| 2 | June 17, 2020 11:00 | June 18, 2020 01:45 | 14h 45m | 2,793 | 3,773 |
| 3 | April 8, 2020 19:00 | April 10, 2020 22:00 | 2d 3h | 1,883 | 19K |
| 4 | April 7, 2020 22:45 | April 8, 2020 00:45 | 2h | 1,649 | 2,278 |
| 5 | May 20, 2020 05:00 | May 22, 2020 21:15 | 2d 16h | 1,594 | 34K |
| 6 | December 19, 2020 16:15 | December 20, 2020 05:30 | 13h 15m | 1,199 | 3,555 |
| 7 | June 20, 2020 12:45 | June 22, 2020 05:45 | 1d 17h | 1,083 | 2,564 |
| 8 | July 10, 2020 19:30 | July 11, 2020 02:00 | 6h 30m | 1,020 | 1,833 |
| 9 | July 4, 2020 20:45 | July 4, 2020 23:45 | 3h | 774 | 2,195 |
| 10 | April 21, 2020 16:15 | April 22, 2020 15:45 | 23h 30m | 695 | 1,379 |
Outage episodes by size in 2020: 53 reached 100+ customers, 8 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 2020, 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 | 2020 | 10.1 hrs | 2.26 | 7.7 hrs | 2.01 |
| 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 97% of Virginia's customers in 2020; 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, 2020, 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/2020/virginia/pulaski-county