Tree removal in Broad Creek, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Broad Creek that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 8, 2025; August 8, 2019; and November 24, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 820 households live in Broad Creek. About two thirds 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 1993.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Broad Creek, averages 53 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 4 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Carteret County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Carteret-Craven El Member Corp.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024