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Who serves Henry County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. City of Martinsville also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — 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 — Henry County, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 22, 2026 — peaked at 713 customers, restored in ~4.3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.2 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 — Henry County, VA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
544 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
5.3 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: ~13,861 customers out in March 2018, restored after about 3.9 days. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
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 Henry County include Ridgeway, Bassett, Chatmoss, Collinsville, Fieldale, Horse Pasture, Laurel Park and Oak Level. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Henry County, VA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Henry include Appalachian Power and City of Martinsville — 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.
