When's the Power Back?

When will the power be back in Polk County, GA?

See current outages near you, plus an independent restoration forecast when enough trend data exists · Georgia
29
customers reported out in Polk County, GA
Reported by the utility's own live outage data — this county isn't included in the slower nationwide county tally.
Official restoration time (Georgia Power): Oct 8, 7:00 AM EDT
County-wide restoration outlook: no clear recovery trend yet — past outages here of 200+ customers in the same kind of weather ran ~1.5 hr start to finish (7 on record)
County-wide data — your specific neighborhood or circuit may be restored earlier or later.
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Updated 2:40 AM EDT.
2929 out, then 2929 county-wide trend of customers without power · last 5 hr · tap or hover a point to see its number
Communities with reported outages — from the utilities that publish city-by-city detail for this county
Cedartown — 29 customers reported out · utility est. Oct 8, 7:00 AM EDT
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Who serves Polk County?

County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Georgia Power, alongside the nationwide county-by-county tally. Carroll 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 — Polk County, GA
Last significant outage: Oct 3, 2026 — peaked at 421 customers, restored in ~1.5 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 significant outages tracked here, restoration typically ran about 2.7 hr.
This county-level list covers larger outages (about 200+ customers at peak, lasting 30 minutes or more) — oldest listed: Jul 26, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Polk County, GA
Federal outage records (EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show 439 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including 2 major events of 10,000+ customers. Typical restoration ran ~2.3 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~11,874 customers out in October 2020, restored after about 3.5 days. The busiest year on record here was 2020.
Source: EAGLE-I (Oak Ridge National Laboratory / U.S. Department of Energy), county-level records 2014–2025, replayed through the same event rules as our tracking archive above with two differences: outages shorter than half an hour count here, and a reading above twice the county's customers or households is capped. They cover a far longer period than we have been tracking — a different set of outages, so the two typical times differ. These are federal historical records, not events tracked live by this site.
Communities covered

Communities in Polk County include Cedartown, Rockmart and Aragon. Searches and the live map cover every address in the county, named here or not.

This page also serves Cedartown: its outages are counted in this county's total.

Polk County, GA — live power outage tracker