Virginia power outages

Live outages across Virginia from Dominion Energy, Appalachian Power and LG&E and KU, updated every 10 minutes. 52 counties have customers without power right now.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

Normal: fewer than 0.1% of customers out. Elevated: 0.1% or more. Major outage: 1% or more.

737customers without power

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

0.02% of 3,281,874 customersUpdated 2 min ago

We check every utility's outage data every 10 minutes. Each utility updates its own map on its own schedule, usually every 5 to 15 minutes.

Dominion Energy444 / 2,705,147

Appalachian Power287 / 547,544

LG&E and KU6 / 29,183

Rappahannock Electric Coopno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Northern Virginia Elec Coopno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Shenandoah Valley Elec Coopno live feed

This utility doesn't publish outage data we can read automatically, so it isn't in our totals. Its own outage map has its current outages.

Serves part of the state, per federal utility records

From EIA Form 861, the U.S. Energy Information Administration's yearly survey of every electric utility and the areas it serves.

. Check its own outage map.

Outage map

<0.01%0.01%0.1%1%+ outno live feed

Color shows the share of each county's customers without power right now.

Counties with the most outages

123 counties with live data

County	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
James City County	85	41,044	0.21%
Carroll County	74	19,334	0.38%
Henrico County	71	164,037	0.04%
Richmond city	45	128,328	0.04%
Fairfax County	43	415,489	0.01%
Roanoke city	40	51,287	0.08%
Prince William County	39	90,333	0.04%
Chesterfield County	22	171,000	0.01%
Scott County	22	12,030	0.18%
Washington County	20	23,604	0.08%
Norfolk city	19	104,636	0.02%
Lynchburg city	15	40,398	0.04%
Nelson County	14	2,597	0.54%
Stafford County	14	55,688	0.03%
Botetourt County	12	16,613	0.07%

Outage history in Virginia

2014–2025 record

Virginia averaged 7 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for states.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 7. Half were over within 19 hours; the longest lasted 3.1 days, starting February 12, 2025.

The largest on record began October 11, 2018, with 572,666 customers out at once.

7significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

6 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

5.2 dayslongest on record (September 2024)

572,666most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
October 11, 2018	572,666	3.1 days	17,249,718
March 2, 2018	565,496	3.4 days	18,059,041
August 4, 2020	357,399	1.6 days	5,678,283
January 3, 2022	333,510	4.4 days	13,124,178
February 13, 2021	304,396	4.2 days	14,456,010

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

Counties in Virginia

Utilities

Dominion Energy
Appalachian Power
LG&E and KU
Rappahannock Electric Coop no live feed
Northern Virginia Elec Coop no live feed
Shenandoah Valley Elec Coop no live feed
Southside Electric Coop, Inc no live feed
City of Danville - (VA) no live feed
Central Virginia Electric Coop no live feed
A & N Electric Coop no live feed
Powell Valley Electric Coop no live feed