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Who serves Oglethorpe 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. Rayle 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 — Oglethorpe County, GA
Last significant outage: Sep 3, 2026 — peaked at 388 customers, restored in ~30 min (no severe weather).
Across the 7 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 1 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 23, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Oglethorpe County, GA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
224 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: ~4,244 customers out in September 2024, restored after about 3.3 days. The busiest year on record here was 2025.
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 Oglethorpe County include Crawford, Arnoldsville, Maxeys, Lexington and Vesta-Enterprise. 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 Oglethorpe County, GA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Oglethorpe include Georgia Power, Jackson EMC and Rayle 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.
