Is the power out in 31312?

Live answer for ZIP 31312 (Guyton 2% of the ZIP; Effingham County), from Georgia Power, updated every 10 minutes.

Right now in 31312

No. The utility reports no outages in 31312 right now.

0.00% of 10,911 customers

A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.

Updated 8 min ago

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Outage map

ZIP 31312Effingham CountyOutage (size = customers)

Each dot is an outage the utility reports, placed where the utility puts it, often the middle of the affected area rather than a specific home. Tap a dot for the number of customers and the utility's estimated restoration time.

Neighboring ZIP codes

ZIP	Area	Out	Customers i A customer is one electric account, usually one home or business, not one person. Utilities count outages this way.	% out i Customers without power divided by all the customers the utility serves in this area.
31329	Springfield	0	5,128	0.00%
31307	Unincorporated area	–	–	–
31326	Rincon / Springfield	13	12,186	0.11%
31318	Unincorporated area	–	–	–
31303	Unincorporated area	0	1,269	0.00%

Outage history in Effingham County, which includes 31312

2014–2025 record

Effingham County averaged 37 significant outages a year in 2023–2025, about typical for Georgia counties.

In the 12 months to December 2025, there were 41. Half were over within 1.5 hours; the longest lasted 8.5 hours, starting August 4, 2025.

The largest on record began October 7, 2016, with 28,667 customers out at once.

37significant outages a year (2023–2025)

At least 1% of the area's customers, and at least 100, without power at the same time. Outages less than 6 hours apart count as one.

1.5 hourstypical (median) length

Half of significant outages here ended sooner than this, and half lasted longer.

8.6 dayslongest on record (September 2024)

28,667most customers out at once

Largest events (start)	Peak out	Lasted i How long this area stayed at or above the significant-outage line, not how long any one home was without power.	Customer-hours i Customers out multiplied by hours out, added up over the event. 1,000 customers out for 3 hours is 3,000 customer-hours.
October 7, 2016	28,667	5 days	1,626,202
September 27, 2024	27,466	8.6 days	2,081,688
September 11, 2017	12,146	3.1 days	324,963
June 14, 2023	7,332	26 hours	54,395
April 19, 2019	6,404	21 hours	37,341

Recorded outages from EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (CC BY 4.0).

From EAGLE-I, Oak Ridge National Laboratory's record of utility outage data every 15 minutes since 2014 (CC BY 4.0). It covered about 9 in 10 U.S. customers.

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Food safety

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24 hA half-full freezer holds about 24 hours if kept closed.
48 hA full freezer holds about 48 hours.

Generators, heat and cold

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Use a battery-powered carbon monoxide alarm.
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