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Who serves Effingham County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Georgia Power and Excelsior EMC ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Planters Electric Membership Corp also serves parts of this county — we don't yet read its own live outage map. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Effingham County, GA
⚡ Power here was restored about 8 hours ago — the outage peaked at 538 customers.
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 538 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 17 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1.8 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 27, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Effingham County, GA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
425 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
4 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~28,667 customers out in October 2016, restored after about 26.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2023.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-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 Effingham County
Communities in Effingham County include Rincon, Springfield, Guyton, Guyton-Springfield and Shawnee. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.
Common questions
How do I report a power outage in Effingham County, GA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Effingham include Georgia Power, Excelsior EMC and Planters Electric Membership Corp — 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.
