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Who serves Franklin County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Georgia Power and Jackson EMC, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Hart 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 — Franklin County, GA
Last significant outage: Sep 2, 2026 — peaked at 2,015 customers, restored in ~4 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 2 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.5 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Aug 14, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Franklin County, GA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
161 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025.
Typical restoration ran ~
1.8 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: ~7,757 customers out in April 2020, restored after about 28.5 hr. The busiest year on record here was 2024.
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.
Communities covered
Communities in Franklin County include Royston, Lavonia, Franklin Springs, Carnesville, Canon, Gumlog and Sandy Cross. 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 Franklin County, GA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Franklin include Georgia Power, Jackson EMC and Hart 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.
