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When will the power be back in Colonial Heights, VA?

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No significant city-wide outage reported in Colonial Heights, VA right now.
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Elsewhere in Virginia: 4,867 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 3:31 AM EDT.
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Who serves Colonial Heights?

City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. This is the utility we track here, not necessarily the only one serving it — 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 — Colonial Heights, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 5, 2026 — peaked at 235 customers, restored in ~48 min (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 5, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Colonial Heights, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 111 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~1.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in fall.
That is shorter than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~8,775 customers out in June 2023, restored after about 27.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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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Around Colonial Heights: the closest other places we track are Petersburg, about 4 miles to the south; Hopewell, about 6 miles to the east; Richmond, about 19 miles to the north; and Williamsburg, about 38 miles to the east. Also nearby: Newport News (50 mi E); Suffolk (57 mi SE); Roanoke Rapids, NC (58 mi S); Hampton (62 mi E); Poquoson (62 mi E); Portsmouth (64 mi SE); Norfolk (68 mi E); and Fredericksburg (72 mi N).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Culpeper (90 mi); northeast toward Cambridge, MD (115 mi); southeast toward Chesapeake (73 mi); south toward Rocky Mount, NC (92 mi); southwest toward Henderson, NC (86 mi); west toward Lynchburg (99 mi); and northwest toward Charlottesville (80 mi).

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