Factbox-More than 1.6 million US customers are still without power from Hurricane Helene by Reuters

(Reuters) – More than 1.6 million homes and businesses in the Carolinas, Georgia, Florida and other southeastern and midwestern U.S. states were still without power on Monday after Helene slammed into the Florida Panhandle as a major hurricane on September 26, according to Reuters data. PowerOutage.us.

Those outages are down from about 2.1 million earlier in the day as utilities continue to restore power. In all, the storm disrupted service for about 5.5 million customers.

Helene’s winds, rain and storm surge killed more than 100 people, according to a Reuters count of state and local officials.

US energy company Duke Energy (NYSE: ) had the most power outages in the Carolinas, with about 415,601 customers still in South Carolina and 287,369 in North Carolina, according to PowerOutage.us.

Duke said Sunday it had restored power to more than 1.1 million customers in the Carolinas and expected to restore service to most customers by Friday.

Duke’s storm director for the Carolinas, Jason Hollifield, noted, however, that “there are a lot of areas in upstate South Carolina and the mountains of North Carolina where they’re going to have to completely rebuild parts of our system, not just we fix it”.

Here are the major outages by state:

State interruption

South Carolina 694,518

Georgia

505,726

North Carolina 404,303

Florida 82,874

Virginia 85,278

Ohio 15,921

West Virginia 17,153

Total Out 1,678,563