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Who serves Franklin?
City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Electric service in this city is provided by City of Franklin — we don't yet read its own live outage map, so the numbers above come from the nationwide county-by-county tally (federal data). Territories overlap, so check your own address on the live map to confirm your provider.
Outage history — Franklin, VA
No significant outages recorded here since we began tracking this county — smaller flickers (under ~200 customers at peak) aren't archived.
Longer-term outage history — Franklin, VA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
247 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
5.8 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: ~8,019 customers out in December 2022, restored after about 3.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
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.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Franklin, VA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Franklin city include City of Franklin — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.
