When will the power be back in Emporia, VA?
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No significant city-wide outage reported in Emporia, VA right now.
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Elsewhere in Virginia: 8,897 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
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Who serves Emporia?
City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy and Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative, 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 company's combined picture, see Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Emporia, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 4, 2026 — peaked at 580 customers, restored in ~6.7 hr (wind/storm).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Emporia, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
36 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~4.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~1,898 customers out in May 2015, restored after about 1.3 hr.
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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