When will the power be back in Roanoke, VA?

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

City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Appalachian Power, 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 AEP outages across every state it serves.

Outage history — Roanoke, VA

Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 776 customers, restored in ~2.5 hr (no severe weather).

Across the 19 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 6.5 hr.

This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 22, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.

Longer-term outage history — Roanoke, VA

Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 830 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 1 major event of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~6 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.

That is longer than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.

Largest on record: ~12,933 customers out in February 2016, restored after about 2.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2018.

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 Roanoke

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Nearby counties & areas

Roanoke County · Salem · Craig County · Franklin County · Botetourt County · Bedford County · Montgomery County · Floyd County

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Roanoke in detail

ZIP codes in Roanoke:

Roanoke also extends into a neighboring city: 24018 · 24019 · 24020 · 24023 · 24050. Checking a ZIP goes straight to the address-level view for that area.

Around Roanoke: the closest other places we track are Salem, about 5 miles to the west; Blacksburg, about 26 miles to the west; Christiansburg, about 26 miles to the west; and Radford, about 35 miles to the west. Also nearby: Martinsville (41 mi S); Lynchburg (43 mi E); Eden, NC (55 mi S); Danville (57 mi SE); Mount Airy, NC (64 mi SW); Reidsville, NC (67 mi S); Summerfield, NC (75 mi S); and Beckley, WV (76 mi NW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: northeast toward Staunton (78 mi); southeast toward Mebane, NC (91 mi); south toward Kernersville, NC (81 mi); southwest toward Statesville, NC (115 mi); west toward Bristol, TN (134 mi); and northwest toward Charleston, WV (118 mi).