About 5,346 Georgia customers were without power at 7:15 a.m. Monday, according to USA TODAY’s outage tracker, a small share of the more than 5.2 million customers monitored across the state. The rate climbs sharply in a handful of rural counties. Southwest Georgia’s Terrell County led the state at 6.3% of customers tracked in the dark.
On the same morning, the National Weather Service in Atlanta warned that central Georgia would stay warm and humid, with daily afternoon and evening thunderstorm chances running through the week. Forecasters monitor another stretch of unsettled weather as rain keeps the daily storm risk open and crews wait between repairs on the lines that did go down.
Georgia’s Monday Morning Outage Count
As of Monday at 7:15 a.m., about 5,346 customers were reportedly without power statewide out of more than 5.2 million customers being tracked, representing roughly 0.1% of customers across Georgia. The figure comes from USA TODAY’s running tally of utility-reported outages, not a single storm-driven blackout. State totals are fluid, and the same snapshot an hour later can show a different number.
The outages are scattered, with several hundred small clusters across the state. No single large feeder-line event drove the morning’s outage count. Crews re-energize circuits as new pockets of damage appear. The bulk of the affected customers are clustered in a handful of small-county grids.
Rural Counties Lead the Outage List
The steepest outage percentages tracked on Monday came from rural counties, several of them in southwest and east-central Georgia. Terrell County led the state at 6.3%, with 363 customers out of the small local total. Taliaferro County followed at 3.6%, with 71 customers in the dark, and Glascock County at 2.8%, with 54 customers out.
Effingham County on the coastal-south border reported 2.3% of customers out, or 768 households. Walker County in northwest Georgia logged 2.0%, or 480 customers, while Fannin County in the mountains reported 1.7%, or 489. Polk County rounded out the list at 1%, with 197 customers without power. None of these counties approaches the customer base of a metro Atlanta county, so a few hundred outages in any of them can read as a 2% to 6% rate.
The same data, sorted by share of customers without power, with the absolute count in parentheses:
| County | Customers without power | Share of county total |
|---|---|---|
| Terrell | 363 | 6.3% |
| Taliaferro | 71 | 3.6% |
| Glascock | 54 | 2.8% |
| Effingham | 768 | 2.3% |
| Walker | 480 | 2.0% |
| Fannin | 489 | 1.7% |
| Polk | 197 | 1% |
Where the Bigger Counties Stand
Larger urban and suburban counties reported much smaller percentage impacts, even when their absolute customer counts ran higher. Cobb County had 584 customers out, Fulton County 304, DeKalb County 228, Richmond County 153, and Coweta County 121. Each of those numbers is a fraction of a percent of the local customer base. The 584 in Cobb is the largest absolute count in the urban list, but the percentage impact there is a sliver of the local grid. Most of the outages are scattered reports, and the live numbers are on Georgia Power’s outage and storm center.
Metro Atlanta, in particular, is largely intact on the morning snapshot. Fulton and DeKalb together reported 532 customers out across the morning tally, against customer bases that run into the hundreds of thousands in each county. Cobb County’s 584 is the highest absolute count in the urban list, and it lands as a sliver of the local grid.
The contrast is sharpest at the county level. Terrell County, with 363 customers out, hit 6.3%. Cobb County, with 584 customers out, registered a fraction of a percent of its customer base. The difference is the size of the local grid, and the same handful of outages shows up differently in the two percentage columns.
The state totals reflect that split. With 5,346 customers out of more than 5.2 million, Georgia’s grid is overwhelmingly intact. The morning report is a snapshot of a few small local grids straining under weather, and a list of counties where even a small outage shows up as a high rate.
The Weather Setup Behind the Outages
The National Weather Service in Atlanta posted on Monday afternoon that the week opens with cooler and drier air in north Georgia and warm, humid air and thunderstorm chances in central Georgia. The same post lists cooling through the week as cloud cover builds, with daily afternoon and evening rain chances running across much of the state. The NWS office expects the daily rain and storm chances to continue across much of the state. Forecasters monitor another stretch of unsettled weather as the daily pattern holds.
The week starts with cooler temps in drier air in north Georgia and warm, humid air and thunderstorm chances in central Georgia. Cooling is expected through the week thanks to cloud cover and daily afternoon and evening thunderstorm and rain chances. #gawx
NWS Atlanta’s Monday afternoon forecast post paired the cooldown with the daily rain chances the office expects to run through Friday. The pattern can drop a quick burst of wind or lightning on one feeder line while leaving the next county untouched. The same office called it another stretch of unsettled weather as the daily pattern holds.
For the local grids that took the heaviest percentage hits, the pattern matters because it slows recovery. A new round of thunderstorms can keep crews waiting between repairs. A county that cleared a few hundred customers at 7 a.m. can be back in the outage column by 3 p.m. The forecast, as of the NWS Monday post, lists cooling and storm chances continuing into the weekend.
What the Week Looks Like
The seven-day forecast from the weather service’s Atlanta office keeps rain in the picture through the workweek. Tuesday carries an 80% chance of precipitation, with showers and a possible thunderstorm after 3 p.m. and a high near 77. Wednesday drops to a 60% chance, with a high near 84, and Thursday climbs to 90%, with showers and a possible thunderstorm and a high near 85.
Juneteenth, Friday, is forecast at 80% precipitation with a high near 83. The NWS Atlanta seven-day forecast page shows the unsettled pattern easing only briefly. Saturday is forecast mostly sunny with a high near 85. Sunday carries a 30% chance of storms and Monday a 50% chance, leaving the rain risk open into next week. The NWS Monday forecast, posted the same day as the outage data, points to the morning’s outage list looking different by week’s end.
