When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Fairfax, VA?

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No significant city-wide outage reported in Fairfax, 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 Fairfax?

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 — Fairfax, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 27, 2026 — peaked at 1,031 customers, restored in ~1.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 8 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 2, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Fairfax, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 838 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 15 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~6.3 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: ~25,402 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 9.3 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2018.
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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Fairfax also extends into a neighboring city: 22030 · 22031 · 22032 · 22033 · 22034 · 22035 · 22036 · 22037. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Fairfax: the closest other places we track are Vienna, about 4 miles to the northeast; Falls Church, about 7 miles to the east; Herndon, about 9 miles to the northwest; and Manassas Park, about 10 miles to the southwest. Also nearby: Alexandria (12 mi E); Manassas (12 mi SW); Washington, DC (16 mi E); Rockville, MD (18 mi NE); Takoma Park, MD (18 mi NE); Hyattsville, MD (20 mi E); Gaithersburg, MD (20 mi N); and College Park, MD (22 mi NE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Frederick, MD (41 mi); northeast toward Greenbelt, MD (24 mi); east toward New Carrollton, MD (24 mi); southeast toward La Plata, MD (28 mi); south toward Fredericksburg (40 mi); southwest toward Culpeper (46 mi); west toward Warrenton (28 mi); and northwest toward Leesburg (22 mi).

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