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Who serves Sumter County?
County-wide coverage, with utility detail where available. Serving utilities tracked here include Georgia Power, Flint Energies / Flint EMC ↗ and Sumter 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 — Sumter County, GA
Last significant outage: Sep 25, 2026 — peaked at 277 customers, restored in ~4.8 hr (no severe weather).
Across the 10 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: Jul 25, 2026. Smaller or briefer interruptions aren't listed.
Longer-term outage history — Sumter County, GA
Federal outage records (
EAGLE-I, kept by the U.S. Department of Energy) show
328 notable outages (200+ customers at peak) here between 2014 and 2025 — including
2 major events of 10,000+ customers.
Typical restoration ran ~
2.5 hr (median), and outages here have been most common in summer.
Largest on record: ~13,270 customers out in October 2018, restored after about 3.1 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 Sumter County
Communities in Sumter County include Americus, Plains, Leslie, Andersonville, De Soto and Leslie-De Soto. 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 Sumter County, GA?
Report it to your electric utility — crews are dispatched from customer reports. Utilities serving parts of Sumter include Georgia Power, Flint Energies / Flint EMC and Sumter 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.
