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Who serves Forsyth County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Sawnee EMC, Georgia Power and Amicalola EMC ↗, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Multiple utilities serve parts of this area — enter a street address above for your exact provider.
Outage history — Forsyth County, GA
Last significant outage: Sep 24, 2026 — peaked at 358 customers, restored in ~2.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 14 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 3 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 24, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Forsyth County, GA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
513 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
9 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
That is shorter than the Georgia norm in the same records, where the typical outage ran ~2.5 hr.
Largest on record: ~46,734 customers out in July 2023, restored after about 47.8 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2019.
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 Forsyth County
Communities in Forsyth County include Cumming, Big Creek, Chestatee and Silver City. 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 Forsyth County, GA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Forsyth include Sawnee EMC, Georgia Power and Amicalola EMC — 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.
