Tree removal in Aiken, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Aiken that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 15, 2024; August 3, 2022; and July 7, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 12,960 households live in Aiken. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Aiken, averages 41 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Aiken County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Aiken Electric Coop Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024