Tree removal in Awendaw, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Awendaw that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 8, 2025 and August 11, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 700 households live in Awendaw. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1999.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Awendaw, averages 34 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Charleston County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Berkeley Electric Coop Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024