Tree removal in Bassett, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Bassett that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 1, 2025; April 11, 2024; and August 24, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 350 households live in Bassett. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1960.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Bassett, averages 95 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 16 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Henry County, among them Appalachian Power Co and Virginia Electric & Power Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024