Power outages in Virginia
Live outage status by county · updated ~every 15 minutes
4,868
customers reported out statewide · 24 counties reporting · 10 with 50+ customers out
Updated 3:31 AM EDT.
Significant outages (50+ customers, largest first)
Norfolk city — 1,747 reported out · ~17 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 191 customers an hour)
Virginia Beach city — 1,037 reported out · ~1.8 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 723 customers an hour)
Hampton city — 772 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here like this ran ~4 hr start to finish (5 on record)
Chesapeake city — 492 reported out · ~1.4 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 650 customers an hour)
Bedford — 186 reported out · grew sharply just now — too soon to tell the trend
Roanoke city — 169 reported out · ~48 min to restore, weighing the current pace (roughly 283 customers an hour) against past outages here
Portsmouth city — 99 reported out · ~2 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 99 customers an hour)
Williamsburg city — 77 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
Botetourt — 58 reported out · grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~4 hr start to finish (4 on record)
Fairfax — 55 reported out · no reliable recovery trend yet
“Reporting” means at least one customer reported out in county-level data (the federal nationwide tally combined with utilities' own live data where we track them); “significant” means 50+ customers out — the floor for the active list above.
All Virginia counties (133)
- Accomack
- Albemarle
- Alexandria city
- Alleghany
- Amelia
- Amherst
- Appomattox
- Arlington
- Augusta
- Bath
- Bedford
- Bland
- Botetourt
- Bristol city
- Brunswick
- Buchanan
- Buckingham
- Buena Vista city
- Campbell
- Caroline
- Carroll
- Charles City
- Charlotte
- Charlottesville city
- Chesapeake city
- Chesterfield
- Clarke
- Colonial Heights city
- Covington city
- Craig
- Culpeper
- Cumberland
- Danville city
- Dickenson
- Dinwiddie
- Emporia city
- Essex
- Fairfax
- Fairfax city
- Falls Church city
- Fauquier
- Floyd
- Fluvanna
- Franklin
- Franklin city
- Frederick
- Fredericksburg city
- Galax city
- Giles
- Gloucester
- Goochland
- Grayson
- Greene
- Greensville
- Halifax
- Hampton city
- Hanover
- Harrisonburg city
- Henrico
- Henry
- Highland
- Hopewell city
- Isle of Wight
- James City
- King and Queen
- King George
- King William
- Lancaster
- Lee
- Lexington city
- Loudoun
- Louisa
- Lunenburg
- Lynchburg city
- Madison
- Manassas city
- Manassas Park city
- Martinsville city
- Mathews
- Mecklenburg
- Middlesex
- Montgomery
- Nelson
- New Kent
- Newport News city
- Norfolk city
- Northampton
- Northumberland
- Norton city
- Nottoway
- Orange
- Page
- Patrick
- Petersburg city
- Pittsylvania
- Poquoson city
- Portsmouth city
- Powhatan
- Prince Edward
- Prince George
- Prince William
- Pulaski
- Radford city
- Rappahannock
- Richmond
- Richmond city
- Roanoke
- Roanoke city
- Rockbridge
- Rockingham
- Russell
- Salem city
- Scott
- Shenandoah
- Smyth
- Southampton
- Spotsylvania
- Stafford
- Staunton city
- Suffolk city
- Surry
- Sussex
- Tazewell
- Virginia Beach city
- Warren
- Washington
- Waynesboro city
- Westmoreland
- Williamsburg city
- Winchester city
- Wise
- Wythe
- York
Utility coverage in Virginia
Tracked utilities with dedicated pages
Dominion Energy (VA/NC) · Appalachian Power (AEP) · LG&E and KU (Kentucky) · AEP (all states) · Dominion Energy (all states)
Also tracked live — opens in the app
Rappahannock Electric Cooperative (VA) · Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative (NOVEC) · Shenandoah Valley EC (VA) · A&N Electric Cooperative (VA) · Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative (VA) · Northern Neck Electric Cooperative (VA) · BARC Electric Cooperative (VA) · Prince George Electric Cooperative (VA) · Community Electric Cooperative (VA)
This is our tracking coverage, not a complete registry of every utility serving Virginia.
Historical outage patterns in Virginia
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy)
contain 49,887 county-level outage records (200+ customers at peak) in Virginia between 2014 and 2025 for the 128 counties the federal record covers — 328 of them major events of 10,000+ customers.
Half were restored within about 3.5 hr, and county-level outages here have been most common in summer (34% of all records). The busiest year on record was 2025.
Largest single-county outage on record: ~116,190 customers out in Henrico County in June 2016, restored after about 3.8 days.
Months that hit the widest area at once — these rank among the three largest outages ever recorded in the most counties: October 2018 (34 counties), March 2018 (24 counties) and September 2024 (20 counties).
Where restoration has historically taken longest: Fairfax County (~7.3 hr typical), Henrico County (~6.8 hr typical) and Dickenson County (~6.5 hr typical) — against ~3.5 hr statewide.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), 2014–2025. These are federal
historical records, not outages tracked live by this site. Statewide figures aggregate the same per-county records shown on each county page below;
the statewide restoration figure is the typical (middle) value across the per-county typical times, weighted by how many records each county has. A county appears in a “widest area” month when that month
produced one of its three largest recorded outages.
Common questions
Which utilities serve Virginia?
Electric utilities we track in Virginia include Dominion Energy, Appalachian Power, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative, Northern Virginia Electric Cooperative and others. Each restores its own service area — report an outage to your serving utility so crews can be dispatched.