County annual report · FIPS 51155
2021 Pulaski County, VA Power Outage Report
In 2021, customers in Pulaski County, VA went without power for an average of 20.9 hours, a total of 259K customer-hours (Virginia average 8.7 hours). That ranks 26th worst of 130 Virginia counties and 413th of 2,974 nationally.
Compared with VA, the US and 2020
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Virginia customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Pulaski County, 2021
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | April 27, 2021 18:15 | April 28, 2021 02:30 | 8h 15m | 7,115 | 8,135 |
| 2 | February 18, 2021 08:15 | February 22, 2021 17:45 | 4d 9h | 2,995 | 41K |
| 3 | July 26, 2021 20:30 | July 29, 2021 21:00 | 3d | 2,899 | 72K |
| 4 | February 13, 2021 14:15 | February 15, 2021 01:45 | 1d 11h | 2,042 | 40K |
| 5 | September 27, 2021 13:30 | September 27, 2021 17:30 | 4h | 1,481 | 1,550 |
| 6 | October 13, 2021 14:45 | October 13, 2021 15:45 | 1h | 1,447 | 1,447 |
| 7 | February 15, 2021 21:30 | February 16, 2021 10:15 | 12h 45m | 1,371 | 1,611 |
| 8 | June 12, 2021 18:45 | June 13, 2021 12:15 | 17h 30m | 1,346 | 6,173 |
| 9 | September 21, 2021 18:00 | September 23, 2021 04:45 | 1d 10h | 1,324 | 6,146 |
| 10 | August 24, 2021 09:15 | August 24, 2021 20:00 | 10h 45m | 1,198 | 7,107 |
Outage episodes by size in 2021: 49 reached 100+ customers, 14 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 2021, 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 | 2021 | 22.1 hrs | 2.24 | 7.7 hrs | 1.84 |
| 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 2021; 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, 2021, 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/2021/virginia/pulaski-county