When will the power be back in Nelson County, VA?

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Nelson County, 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 Nelson County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power, Dominion Energy and Shenandoah Valley EC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Central Virginia Electric Cooperative 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 companies' combined pictures, see AEP outages across every state it serves and Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Nelson County, VA

Last significant outage: Sep 6, 2026 — peaked at 750 customers, restored in ~18 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 3 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 18 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 10, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Nelson County, VA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 311 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025. Typical restoration ran ~3.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: an outage in September 2025, restored after about 5.8 hr. The recorded customer count for this outage is not shown — it is larger than the county's entire customer base, a known double-counting problem in the federal source. The busiest year on record here was 2018.

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 Nelson County include Afton, Arrington, Lovingston, Nellysford, Schuyler, Shipman and Wintergreen. 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 Nelson County, VA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Nelson include Appalachian Power, Dominion Energy, Central Virginia Electric Cooperative and others — 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.

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