Tree removal in Benns Church, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Benns Church that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 31, 2025 and April 26, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 500 households live in Benns Church. About half the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1996.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Benns Church, averages 56 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 6 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 Isle of Wight County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and City of Franklin; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024