Tree removal in Blountville, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Blountville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 24, 2024; March 3, 2023; and January 11, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,050 households live in Blountville. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1973.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Blountville, averages 94 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 22 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 Sullivan County, among them Kingsport Power Co and City of Bristol; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024