When will the power be back in Franklin 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 Franklin County, VA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Appalachian Power): Oct 4, 7:00 AM EDT
A small number of customers are reported out county-wide — too few for a live restoration estimate. past outages here typically ran ~2.7 hr, based on 6 past outages of any size in the same kind of weather.
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
Updated 11:31 PM EDT.
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Glade Hill — <5 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 4, 7:00 AM EDT
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Who serves Franklin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power, 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 AEP outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Franklin County, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 12, 2026 — peaked at 376 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 9 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Franklin County, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
427 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 6 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in spring.
That is longer than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~26,423 customers out in February 2025, restored after about 6 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Franklin County include Rocky Mount, Boones Mill, Ferrum, Henry Fork, North Shore, Penhook, Union Hall and Westlake Corner. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
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