See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Virginia
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customers reported out in Portsmouth, VA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this city isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
City-wide restoration outlook: grew sharply just now — past outages here of any size in the same kind of weather ran ~2.7 hr start to finish (6 on record)
City-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 4:56 PM EDT.
175231city-wide trend of customers without power · last 30 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
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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 — Portsmouth, VA
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 10,024 customers, restored in ~10 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 12 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.9 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 — Portsmouth, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
421 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 6 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~3.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~21,038 customers out in May 2019, restored after about 2.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2016.
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.
