Crews cut number of outages in half, thousands still without power after severe weather Saturday night

Update @ 7:30 p.m. on June 8, 2025:

As of 7 p.m. on Sunday, there are still thousands in the northeast Georgia area without power and multiple roads in Hall County closed due to downed trees.

The Hall County Government issued another update just after 6:30 p.m. on their Facebook that Broome Road east of Gainesville and Henry Smith Road in the northern part of the county have now opened. However, Hubert Stephens Road in the northern part of the county and Shady Valley Road east of Gainesville are closed.

Crews continue to work to restore power and clear roadways. In the meantime, here is a list of current outages in the area:

Hall: 2,528 outages (1,271 Jackson EMC customers, 1,230 Georgia Power customers, 27 from other EMCs) 

Dawson: 1,332 (mostly Sawnee EMC and Georgia Power) 

Stephens: 1,311 (mostly Georgia Power, Hart EMC and Habersham EMC)

Lumpkin: 1,151 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Banks: 1,037 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Habersham: 915 (Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Jackson: 721 (Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

White: 219 (mostly Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Barrow: 142 (mostly Jackson EMC)

Forsyth: 74 (mostly Georgia Power and Sawnee EMC) 

Rabun: 26 (Habersham EMC and Georgia Power)

Gwinnett: 15 (Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Towns: 0

Union: 0

That makes for a total of 9,471 in the northeast Georgia area without power, down from nearly 20,000 just five-and-a-half hours ago.

Updates will be here as power starts to come back to Northeast Georgia in the wake of the severe storms. 

Links to report power outages in your area can be found below:
Amicalola EMC - https://www.amicalolaemc.com/report-an-outage/
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - https://www.brmemc.com/report-an-outage/
Georgia Power - https://www.georgiapower.com/
Habersham EMC - https://www.habershamemc.com/
Hart EMC - https://www.hartemc.com/outage-center/report-an-outage/
Jackson EMC - https://www.jacksonemc.com/
Sawnee EMC - https://sawnee.coop/

Update @ 6 p.m. on June 8, 2025:

As of 6 p.m. on Sunday, there are still thousands in the northeast Georgia area without power and multiple roads in Hall County closed due to downed trees.

The Hall County Government issued an update just after 5:30 p.m. on their Facebook that Broome Road east of Gainesville remains closed. They also said that Hubert Stephens Road and Henry Smith Road in the northern part of the county are closed.

Crews continue to work to restore power and clear roadways. In the meantime, here is a list of current outages in the area:

Hall: 3,061 outages (1,581 Jackson EMC customers, 1,425 Georgia Power customers, 55 from other EMCs) 

Banks: 1,776 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Dawson: 1,438 (mostly Sawnee EMC and Georgia Power) 

Habersham: 1,393 (Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Stephens: 1,270 (mostly Georgia Power, Hart EMC and Habersham EMC)

Lumpkin: 1,113 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Jackson: 723 (Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

White: 616 (mostly Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Forsyth: 205 (mostly Georgia Power and Sawnee EMC) 

Barrow: 148 (mostly Jackson EMC)

Union: 73 (Blue Ridge EMC)

Gwinnett: 19 (Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Rabun: 12  (Habersham EMC and Georgia Power)

Towns: 0

That makes for a total of 11,847 in the northeast Georgia area without power, down from nearly 20,000 just four hours ago.

Updates will be here as power starts to come back to Northeast Georgia in the wake of the severe storms. 

Links to report power outages in your area can be found below:
Amicalola EMC - https://www.amicalolaemc.com/report-an-outage/
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - https://www.brmemc.com/report-an-outage/
Georgia Power - https://www.georgiapower.com/
Habersham EMC - https://www.habershamemc.com/
Hart EMC - https://www.hartemc.com/outage-center/report-an-outage/
Jackson EMC - https://www.jacksonemc.com/
Sawnee EMC - https://sawnee.coop/

Update @ 2:30 p.m. on June 8, 2025:

As of 2 p.m. on Sunday, thousands still remain without power after severe storms Saturday night.

Here is a list of current outages in the area:

Hall: 5,104 outages (3,057 Jackson EMC customers, 1,835 Georgia Power customers, 212 from other EMCs) 

Habersham: 2,761 (Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Lumpkin: 2,551 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Gwinnett: 1,898 (mostly Jackson EMC)

Dawson: 1,666 (mostly Sawnee EMC and Georgia Power) 

Stephens: 1,616 (mostly Georgia Power, Hart EMC and Habersham EMC)

Banks: 1,593 (mostly Jackson EMC and Georgia Power)

Jackson: 960 (mostly Jackson EMC) 

White: 858 (mostly Georgia Power and Habersham EMC)

Barrow: 148 (mostly Jackson EMC)

Forsyth: 89 (mostly Georgia Power and Sawnee EMC) 

Rabun: 22 (mostly Habersham EMC) 

Towns: 0

Union: 0

That's nearly 20,000 in the northeast Georgia area as of Sunday afternoon.

According to a post from the Hall County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) at 10 a.m., 80 total incidents are impacting roadways. Over 20 roads remain closed in the northern part of the county due to downed trees. 

Updates will be here as power starts to come back to Northeast Georgia in the wake of the severe storms. 

Links to report power outages in your area can be found below:
Amicalola EMC - https://www.amicalolaemc.com/report-an-outage/
Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - https://www.brmemc.com/report-an-outage/
Georgia Power - https://www.georgiapower.com/
Habersham EMC - https://www.habershamemc.com/
Hart EMC - https://www.hartemc.com/outage-center/report-an-outage/
Jackson EMC - https://www.jacksonemc.com/
Sawnee EMC - https://sawnee.coop/

Update @ 8 a.m. on June 8, 2025

Several thousand Jackson EMC customers are still without power as of Sunday morning.

Wendy Jones with JEMC shared the following numbers at 7:30 a.m.:

• Hall – 5,269 
• Madison – 2,758  
• Jackson – 1,309 
• Lumpkin – 933 
• Banks – 560 
• Clarke – 529  
• Gwinnett – 311 
• Barrow – 145 
• Oglethorpe – 62  
• White – 8  
• Franklin – 1  

A line of severe thunderstorms rolled through northeast Georgia on Saturday evening, causing downed trees and power outages across several area counties.

Georgia Power, Jackson EMC and Habersham EMC were each reporting 4,000+ outages in their respective coverage areas as the storms moved through.

Smaller providers - such as Amicalola EMC, Sawnee EMC and Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - were also reporting severe outages at the height of Saturday's storm activity.

Jackson EMC sported the highest number of outages during the evening hours, with customers reporting issues across eleven counties - ranging from Clarke and Madison counties in the southeast, to Lumpkin and White counties in the northwest.

More than 38,000 Jackson EMC customers were without power at the original time of publication.

Georgia Power reported outages in Dawson, Forsyth, Gwinnett and Hall counties, with more than 5,000 customers experiencing an outage in the greater Gainesville area alone as of 6:45 p.m. Saturday.

Habersham EMC reported well over 4,000 outages, a majority stemming from Habersham and White counties. Nearly 20% of the co-op's Habersham County customers were without power as of 7 p.m.

AccessWDUN also received word of severe tree damage along Georgia 400 Saturday evening, with multiple trees reported down on the roadway along a stretch of highway between Dahlonega and Dawsonville.

This story will be updated as more information becomes available.

Links to report power outages in your area can be found below:

• Amicalola EMC - https://www.amicalolaemc.com/report-an-outage/
• Blue Ridge Mountain EMC - https://www.brmemc.com/report-an-outage/
• Georgia Power - https://www.georgiapower.com/
• Habersham EMC - https://www.habershamemc.com/
• Hart EMC - https://www.hartemc.com/outage-center/report-an-outage/
• Jackson EMC - https://www.jacksonemc.com/
• Sawnee EMC - https://sawnee.coop/