When will the power be back in Richmond, VA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Virginia

customers reported out in Richmond, 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 ~10 hr start to finish (22 on record)

City-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.

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Updated 11:38 PM EDT.

1022 city-wide trend of customers without power · last 31 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number

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Who serves Richmond?

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 — Richmond, VA

Last significant outage: Sep 29, 2026 — peaked at 927 customers, restored in ~18.5 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 31 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 14 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 — Richmond, VA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 463 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 5 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~3.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

Largest on record: ~32,202 customers out in June 2016, restored after about 3.3 days. 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.

Cities we track in Richmond

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Nearby counties & areas

Henrico County · Chesterfield County · Hanover County · Colonial Heights · Hopewell · Petersburg · Powhatan County · King William County

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Richmond in detail

ZIP codes in Richmond:

Richmond also extends into a neighboring city: 23223 · 23227 · 23230 · 23234 · 23235 · 23236 · 23237 · 23250 · 23289 · 23297. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Richmond: the closest other places we track are Colonial Heights, about 19 miles to the south; Hopewell, about 19 miles to the southeast; Petersburg, about 23 miles to the south; and Williamsburg, about 46 miles to the southeast. Also nearby: Fredericksburg (53 mi N); Newport News (61 mi SE); Charlottesville (65 mi NW); Culpeper (71 mi NW); Poquoson (71 mi E); Hampton (73 mi SE); Suffolk (74 mi SE); and La Plata, MD (75 mi N).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward Warrenton (84 mi); northeast toward Cambridge, MD (104 mi); southeast toward Portsmouth (77 mi); south toward Roanoke Rapids, NC (76 mi); southwest toward Henderson, NC (98 mi); west toward Lynchburg (94 mi); and northwest toward Staunton (97 mi).