When's the Power Back?

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

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No significant county-wide outage reported in Polk County, GA right now.
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Elsewhere in Georgia: 1,521 customers reported out — statewide status.
Updated 10:02 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
⚡ Power here was restored about 27 hours ago — the outage peaked at 421 customers.
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 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 Polk County

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

Polk County, GA — live power outage tracker