When will the power be back in Amherst County, VA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Virginia
28
customers reported out in Amherst County, VA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Appalachian Power): Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT · its own reports for places here carry 2 different times, the earliest Oct 4, 6:30 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: ~20 min to restore at the current pace (roughly 84 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 5 min–1.2 hr — based on how accurate our past estimates like this have been.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
22828 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 4 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Madison Heights — 20 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 6:30 AM EDT
Monroe — 8 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 12:00 PM EDT
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Who serves Amherst County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Central Virginia Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider. For the parent companies' combined pictures, see AEP outages across every state it serves and Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Amherst County, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 23, 2026 — peaked at 597 customers, restored in ~3.7 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Amherst County, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
418 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~4.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~8,180 customers out in June 2022, restored after about 2.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
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