Tree removal in Bonnetsville, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Bonnetsville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 25, 2025; June 11, 2025; and June 26, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 340 households live in Bonnetsville. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about a third of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1965. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Bonnetsville, averages 58 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 Sampson County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Four County Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024