When will the power be back in Albemarle County, VA?
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customer reported out in Albemarle County, VA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~5 hr, based on 963 past outages of any size over 12 years of records.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:38 PM EDT.
11county-wide trend of customers without power · last 4 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
⚡ No power in Albemarle, VA? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
Last significant outage: Sep 18, 2026 — peaked at 429 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 24 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 9.6 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Albemarle County, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
963 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 9 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~5.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is longer than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~36,322 customers out in January 2022, restored after about 5.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level
records 2014–2025 measured by the same rules as our tracking archive above, over a far longer period than we have been tracking — the same method, a different set of outages. These are federal historical records,
not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered
Communities in Albemarle County include Scottsville, Crozet, Earlysville, Esmont, Free Union, Hollymead, Ivy and Keswick. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Albemarle County, VA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Albemarle include Dominion Energy, Appalachian Power, Rappahannock Electric Cooperative and others — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
