Almost 300,000 customers in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina remained without power as of 9 a.m. Thursday, after Hurricane Idalia made landfall as a Category 3 storm on Wednesday morning.
Outage data was retrieved from poweroutage.us.
Utilities have already returned service to hundreds of thousands of affected customers. As of 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, approximately 556,800 electricity customers were without power, according to the Edison Electric Institute, which represents investor-owned utilities.
