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When will the power be back in Petersburg, VA?

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No significant city-wide outage reported in Petersburg, 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 Petersburg?

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 — Petersburg, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 6, 2026 — peaked at 217 customers, restored in ~48 min (no severe weather).
Across the 5 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 4, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Petersburg, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 249 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.8 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~11,431 customers out in February 2021, restored after about 3.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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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Around Petersburg: the closest other places we track are Colonial Heights, about 4 miles to the north; Hopewell, about 8 miles to the northeast; Richmond, about 23 miles to the north; and Williamsburg, about 38 miles to the east. Also nearby: Newport News (49 mi E); Suffolk (54 mi SE); Roanoke Rapids, NC (54 mi S); Hampton (61 mi E); Poquoson (62 mi E); Portsmouth (62 mi E); Norfolk (66 mi E); and Chesapeake (70 mi SE).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Fredericksburg (76 mi); northeast toward Cambridge, MD (118 mi); east toward Virginia Beach (81 mi); southeast toward Elizabeth City, NC (90 mi); south toward Rocky Mount, NC (88 mi); southwest toward Henderson, NC (83 mi); west toward Lynchburg (100 mi); and northwest toward Charlottesville (83 mi).

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