⚡ No power in Norfolk city, VA? We'll notify you when the outage we're tracking looks mostly restored.
An alert when an outage is detected here, another once a dependable restoration estimate is ready, and an all-clear when the outage we're tracking looks substantially restored (~90% of customers back). No email, no account — anonymous usage stats only.
City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy, 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 Dominion Energy outages across every state it serves.
Outage history — Norfolk, VA
Last significant outage: Oct 2, 2026 — peaked at 1,848 customers, restored in ~3 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 28 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3.3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 28, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Norfolk, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
891 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 8 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~49,521 customers out in July 2019, restored after about 48 min. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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.
