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When will the power be back in Suffolk, VA?

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

City-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Dominion Energy and Community Electric Cooperative, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — 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 — Suffolk, VA
Last significant outage: Sep 27, 2026 — peaked at 306 customers, restored in ~8.8 hr (weather alert).
Across the 19 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 4 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 — Suffolk, VA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 434 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 3 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Virginia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~3.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~25,212 customers out in August 2020, restored after about 2.3 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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How do I report a power outage in Suffolk, VA?

Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Suffolk city include Dominion Energy and Community Electric Cooperative — service areas overlap and county lines don't decide your provider, so confirm yours, then use its outage line or website. Reporting a downed line also helps crews find the fault faster. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911.

Suffolk in detail

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Around Suffolk: the closest other places we track are Chesapeake, about 18 miles to the east; Portsmouth, about 19 miles to the northeast; Norfolk, about 26 miles to the northeast; and Newport News, about 27 miles to the north. Also nearby: Hampton (30 mi NE); Virginia Beach (35 mi E); Elizabeth City, NC (36 mi SE); Poquoson (37 mi NE); Williamsburg (39 mi N); Petersburg (54 mi NW); Hopewell (55 mi NW); and Colonial Heights (57 mi NW).

Looking further out, the nearest place we track is: north toward La Plata, MD (128 mi); northeast toward Salisbury, MD (129 mi); south toward New Bern, NC (114 mi); southwest toward Tarboro, NC (75 mi); west toward Roanoke Rapids, NC (59 mi); and northwest toward Richmond (74 mi).

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