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Virginia Power Outages

As of July 18, 2026 17:01 UTC, about 2,202 customers are currently without power across 21 counties in Virginia.

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COUNTIES WITH ACTIVE OUTAGES

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MOST OUTAGE-PRONE COUNTIES (2025)

  1. 1Waynesboro city8419.2h/cust
  2. 2Buena Vista city6007.0h/cust
  3. 3Lexington city691.4h/cust
  4. 4Grayson County94.0h/cust
  5. 5Floyd County86.6h/cust
  6. 6Franklin County71.2h/cust
  7. 7Cumberland County67.6h/cust
  8. 8Highland County58.4h/cust
OUTAGE TREND
Virginia
2,202
AS OF LAST UPDATE · PEAK 2,202
Updated July 18, 2026
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Cost of power in Virginia

▲ 58% since 2010

What Virginiapays for electricity, from the US EIA — and how fast it’s rising as national demand climbs. See energy & the AI data-center surge.

Residential
17.4¢
per kWh
Commercial
10.3¢
per kWh
Industrial
9.9¢
per kWh
RESIDENTIAL ¢/kWh BY YEAR
10.5¢201010.7¢201111.1¢201210.9¢201311.2¢201411.4¢201511.4¢201611.6¢201711.8¢201812.1¢201912.1¢202012.0¢202113.4¢202214.3¢202314.5¢202415.4¢202516.6¢2026

Retail prices from the US EIA (Form 861). Energy & the data-center surge →

Hardest-hit cities statewide

The individual towns and townships with the most customers out right now.

ChesapeakeCHESAPEAKE CITY118LeesburgLOUDOUN COUNTY6Virginia BeachVIRGINIA BEACH CITY2NorfolkNORFOLK CITY1RichmondRICHMOND CITY1

A decade of outages in Virginia

US annual reports →

Average hours without power per customer each year (EAGLE-I).

2.7h20158.1h20163.7h201718.7h20186.4h20196.1h20208.7h202110.0h20224.6h20238.4h20248.6h2025

Virginia's worst year on record was 2018 (peak 136,046 customers out) · decade average 7.8 hrs per customer/yr.

See how Virginia ranks against every state →

Official reliability

Source: US EIA
EIA reliability not reported

Major disturbances (DOE)

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Electric providers in Virginia

All Virginia counties