Tree removal in Basye, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Basye that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 16, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 560 households live in Basye. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1986.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Basye, averages 139 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 56 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 Shenandoah County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Rappahannock Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024