When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Charlottesville, VA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Virginia
No significant city-wide outage reported in Charlottesville, VA right now.
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Elsewhere in Virginia: 8,654 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:02 AM EDT.
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Who serves Charlottesville?

City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Central Virginia Electric Cooperative also serves parts of this city — 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 company's combined picture, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Charlottesville, VA
Last significant outage: Aug 29, 2026 — peaked at 411 customers, restored in ~2 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 6 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4.2 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 8, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Charlottesville, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 254 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~13,315 customers out in January 2022, restored after about 3.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), city-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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How do I report a power outage in Charlottesville, VA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Charlottesville city include Dominion Energy and Central Virginia Electric Cooperative — 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.

Charlottesville in detail

ZIP codes in Charlottesville:

Charlottesville also extends into a neighboring city: 22901 · 22904 · 22909 · 22911. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Charlottesville: the closest other places we track are Staunton, about 32 miles to the west; Culpeper, about 40 miles to the northeast; Fredericksburg, about 57 miles to the east; and Lynchburg, about 59 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Warrenton (60 mi NE), Front Royal (64 mi N), Richmond (65 mi SE), Manassas (73 mi NE), Manassas Park (76 mi NE), Colonial Heights (80 mi SE), Winchester (80 mi N) and Hopewell (83 mi SE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Martinsburg, WV (102 mi); northeast toward Fairfax (85 mi); east toward Cambridge, MD (135 mi); southeast toward Petersburg (83 mi); south toward Henderson, NC (118 mi); southwest toward Roanoke (96 mi); and northwest toward Clarksburg, WV (131 mi).

Charlottesville, VA — live power outage tracker