Power outages in Patrick County, VA

Live outage counts for Stuart and the rest of Patrick County, updated every 10 minutes from Appalachian Power.

Right now

Normal: scattered outages

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

10customers without power

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

0.08% of 12,365 customersUpdated 7 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.

Appalachian Power10 / 12,365

City of Danville - (VA)no 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.

Also serves this county, 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

County outlineAppalachian Power publishes totals only, not outage locations.

Some utilities publish only how many customers are out, not where. Their outages are in the counts but can't be drawn on the map.

Outages by ZIP code

1 of 7 ZIP codes have outages

ZIP	Area	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.
24120	Meadows of Dan	10	1,735	0.58%
24053	Unincorporated area	0	1,588	0.00%
24076	Unincorporated area	0	696	0.00%
24082	Unincorporated area	0	236	0.00%
24133	Patrick Springs	0	1,364	0.00%
24171	Patrick Springs / Stuart	0	5,518	0.00%
24185	Unincorporated area	0	644	0.00%

Outage history in Patrick County

2014–2025 record

Patrick County averaged 53.3 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, more than most Virginia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 46. Half were over within 2.5 hours; the longest lasted 3.8 days, starting February 12, 2025.

The largest on record began January 6, 2025, with 8,374 customers out at once.

53.3significant 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.

3 hourstypical (median) length

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

15 dayslongest on record (January 2017)

8,374most 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.
January 6, 2025	8,374	2.1 days	130,796
September 17, 2024	7,233	2.5 hours	9,746
March 2, 2018	7,071	4.7 days	313,231
October 11, 2018	5,322	3 days	197,937
September 30, 2022	4,961	2.4 days	129,234

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.

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Generators, heat and cold

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Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
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