When will the power be back in Galax, VA?
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No significant city-wide outage reported in Galax, VA right now.
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Elsewhere in Virginia: 6,657 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 5:16 AM EDT.
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Who serves Galax?
City-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 — Galax, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 9, 2026 — peaked at 3,770 customers, restored in ~1 hr (no severe weather).
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Sep 9, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Galax, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
79 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~3,815 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 5.4 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.
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