When will the power be back in Fairfax County, VA?
See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Virginia
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customers reported out in Fairfax County, VA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
County-wide restoration outlook: ~5 hr to restore at the current pace (roughly 16 customers an hour)
🎯 Likely 1.2–16 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 11:38 PM EDT.
836 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 4.6 days · tap or hover a point to see its number
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Who serves Fairfax County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy and Northern Virginia 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 — Fairfax County, VA
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 2,082 customers, restored in ~12.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 39 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 12.5 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 — Fairfax County, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
1,817 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 32 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~7.3 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: ~72,758 customers out in June 2025, restored after about 2.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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.
Cities we track in Fairfax County
Communities in Fairfax County include Herndon, Vienna, Occoquan, Clifton, Annandale, Bailey's Crossroads, Belle Haven and Braddock. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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