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Who serves Buchanan 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. 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 — Buchanan County, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 264 customers, restored in ~10.3 hr (weather alert).
Across the 13 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 — Buchanan County, VA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
383 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
6 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: ~4,770 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 6.6 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 Buchanan County include Grundy, Big Rock, Breaks and Vansant. 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 Buchanan County, VA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Buchanan include Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy — 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.
