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Power outage history

Pulaski County Virginia

29hours

without power for the average customer in a typical year, 2018–2025

22nd most of 123 in Virginia 4.4× the national median

Worst outage on record Mar 24, 2018 100% of customers out · 90% back in 4.5 days

Hours without power, average customer per year 29h / yr State average 8.7 h · national median 6.6 h

Major outages a year 7.0 Peaks over 10% of customers or 50,000 customers

Typical time to restore 90% 5hours Median across major outages, from the peak

Longest single outage 6.0days Mar 24, 2018, over 1% of customers out

Outage hours on storm days 75% Share falling on days with a NOAA storm report here

Worst year 2018 3.6 days without power, average customer

Electricity customers 12,413 ORNL customer model · 8 well-covered years

Every day since 2015

Eleven years, one night at a time

Each cell is a day. The brighter it is, the larger the share of Pulaski's customers who were without power at that day's worst moment.

20152016201720182019202020212022202320242025

0%100% of customers out

Year by year

Hours in the dark, per customer

2018 was the worst well-recorded year, at 3.6 days for the average customer. Hatched years have a thin record and are left out of the averages.

Pulaski, hours without power per customer

PulaskiUS median countyVirginia average

The record

The biggest outages since 2015

Ranked by customer-hours lost: customers out multiplied by how long they stayed out. Times are local.

Began	Storm	Peak out	Share	Lasted	90% restored	Customer-hours
Mar 24, 2018	Winter storm	12,413	100%	6.0 d	4.5 d	877k
Feb 11, 2025	Winter storm	5,969	48%	3.5 d	30 h	181k
May 26, 2024	Thunderstorms	9,898	80%	47 h	41 h	161k
Sep 27, 2024	Flooding	3,128	25%	3.4 d	2.2 d	88k
Feb 24, 2019	Windstorm	2,574	21%	2.4 d	32 h	78k
Jun 17, 2022	Thunderstorms	4,935	40%	2.1 d	44 h	75k
Jul 26, 2021	Thunderstorms	2,899	23%	46 h	43 h	72k
Dec 23, 2022	Windstorm	1,933	16%	3.2 d	2.8 d	67k
Feb 13, 2021	Winter storm	2,042	16%	30 h	23 h	40k
Feb 18, 2021	Winter storm	2,995	24%	34 h	26 h	40k
Apr 1, 2023	Windstorm	2,954	24%	24 h	19 h	35k
May 20, 2020	Flooding	1,594	13%	36 h	9.8 h	33k
Mar 25, 2023	No storm report	4,130	33%	23 h	8.0 h	29k
Mar 1, 2017	No storm report	4,031	32%	29 h	8.8 h	27k
Dec 16, 2023	No storm report	2,533	20%	12 h	10 h	22k
Mar 20, 2018	Winter storm	3,071	25%	23 h	3.8 h	21k
Aug 9, 2019	Tornadoes	1,516	12%	18 h	16 h	19k
Jun 17, 2015	Thunderstorms	3,137	25%	17 h	12 h	19k
Apr 8, 2020	Thunderstorms	1,883	15%	19 h	18 h	18k
Jan 4, 2018	No storm report	2,774	22%	22 h	7.8 h	18k
Oct 23, 2017	Tornadoes	951	8%	28 h	24 h	18k
Jul 15, 2025	Thunderstorms	2,596	21%	20 h	19 h	16k
Oct 3, 2015	No storm report	2,772	22%	6.2 h	1.5 h	16k
Feb 16, 2025	Windstorm	1,843	15%	29 h	5.8 h	16k
Aug 23, 2019	No storm report	986	8%	19 h	19 h	15k
Jun 18, 2015	No storm report	1,661	13%	15 h	14 h	15k
Jan 10, 2016	No storm report	1,301	10%	15 h	15 h	14k
Mar 10, 2024	No storm report	1,283	10%	23 h	22 h	12k
Oct 20, 2018	Windstorm	1,196	10%	13 h	4.8 h	12k
Feb 4, 2018	No storm report	1,136	9%	12 h	8.2 h	11k

After the peak

How fast the lights come back

Each line is one major outage, from its peak. The amber line is the typical path.

When it happens

The outage clock

Customer-hours out by month (rings, January innermost) and local hour, 2018–2025.

What was happening

Weather behind the outages

Each outage is matched to NOAA storm reports for Pulaski from twelve hours before it began to its peak. Matching shows coincidence, not proof of cause.

Winter storm 46%
No storm on record 25%
Thunderstorms 14%
Windstorm 8.4%
Flooding 5.2%
Tornadoes 0.7%

Who keeps the lights on

Utilities serving Pulaski

As each utility reports to the Energy Information Administration for its whole Virginia territory, not this county alone. Outage minutes include major storm days.

Utility	Type	Outage min / yr	Excl. major storms	Outages / yr	Residential ¢/kWh	Customers
Appalachian Power Co	Investor Owned	1,116	328	2.36	17.2	468k
City of Radford	VA	–	–	–	12.1	73k

EIA Form 861, latest year each utility reported. Outage minutes are SAIDI, the yearly minutes the average customer goes without power; outages a year are SAIFI.

Next door

Neighbouring counties

Bland 43 h
Floyd 42 h
Giles 41 h
Carroll 31 h
Pulaski (this county) 29 h
Wythe 17 h
Montgomery 16 h

Across Virginia

Where it is darkest

Hours / yr64+

All Virginia counties →

About these numbers

Notes

Outages come from the EAGLE-I record of utility outage maps collected every 15 minutes by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Hours without power are customer-hours divided by the county's 12,413 electricity customers. Averages use well-covered years from 2018. Outages shorter than 15 minutes, and utilities that publish no outage map, are not in the record, so these figures understate the total. How every number is made →