Tree removal in Bridgeport, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Bridgeport that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 14, 2022; July 29, 2021; and July 6, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 86 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 610 households live in Bridgeport. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1947.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Bridgeport, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 34 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 Belmont County, among them Ohio Power Co and City of St Clairsville; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024