(Reuters) – Over 1.7 million homes and businesses were still without power in the U.S. Southeast and Midwest on Monday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on Sept. 26, according to data from PowerOutage.us.
Those outages were down from around 2.0 million on Monday afternoon as utilities continued to restore power. In total, the storm knocked out service to around 5.5 million customers.
Helene’s winds, rain and storm surge killed over 100 people, according to a Reuters tally of state and local officials.
The utility with the most outages was U.S. energy company Duke Energy in the Carolinas with about 395,000 customers still out in South Carolina and 266,000 out in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us.
Duke said on Monday it had restored power to around 1.35 million customers in the Carolinas and expected to restore the majority of remaining outages by Friday night.
Here are the major outages by state:
State Outages
South Carolina 624,000
Georgia 467,000
North Carolina 455,000
Florida 74,000
Virginia 67,000
West Virginia 18,000
Total Out 1,705,000
(Reporting by Scott DiSavino; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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