South Carolina was the worst-affected state, with 1,089,535 outages recorded as of early Saturday, according to PowerOutage.us, a service that tracks disruptions. In South Carolina's Greenville County alone, 258,688 outages were recorded.

Helene, which has been downgraded to a tropical storm, hit Georgia after making landfall in Florida. Track where power is out in Georgia here.

Lakeland Electric had a couple of large clusters of about 200 and 100 customers still without power early Friday. Duke had 708 Polk customers out.