Factbox-Almost 4.4 million customers without power in US southeast from Helene

(Reuters) - Almost 4.4 million homes and businesses in Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas and other U.S. Southeastern and Midwestern states were without power on Friday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane late on Thursday, according to data from PowerOutage.us.

Now that the storm has passed through Florida, utilities there have started to restore power. In total, Helene knocked out service to around 4.6 million customers.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast the remnants of Helene, now a tropical storm, would move from the Georgia-South Carolina border to Tennessee and Kentucky over the weekend.

Southern Co (NYSE:SO )'s Georgia Power unit was the power company with the most outages, with around 728,000 of its 2.7 million customers lacking service, according to PowerOutage.us.

Georgia Power has said it had more than 10,000 personnel on the ground to respond to the storm. The company said its crews were responding to outages and restoring power where it was safe to do so as quickly as possible.

Here are the major outages by state:

State Outages

South Carolina 1,362,000

Georgia 1,066,000

Florida 1,057,000

North Carolina 669,000

Virginia 96,000

Tennessee 74,000

Kentucky 31,000



Ohio 15,000

Source: Investing.com