Factbox-Over 4.6 million customers without power in US southeast from Helene

(Reuters) - Over 4.6 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, Georgia and South Carolina, utilities in those states have started to restore power. In total, Helene knocked out service to over 5.2 million customers.

The U.S. National Hurricane Center forecast the remnants of Helene, now a tropical depression, would remain over Tennessee and Kentucky over the weekend.

Duke Energy in North Carolina currently has the most outages with around 669,000 of its roughly 4.3 million customers in the state lacking service, according to PowerOutage.us.

Here are the major outages by state:

State Outages

South Carolina 1,239,000

Georgia 970,000

North Carolina 923,000

Florida 890,000

Virginia 214,000

Kentucky 188,000

Tennessee 110,000

West Virginia 61,000

Ohio 29,000

Total Out 4,624,000

(Reporting by Rahul Paswan in Bengaluru and Scott DiSavino in New York; Editing by Andrew Cawthorne and Jonathan Oatis)