Tree removal in Buchanan, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Buchanan that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 27, 2025; August 5, 2022; and July 12, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 500 households live in Buchanan. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1972.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Buchanan, averages 96 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 19 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 Botetourt County, among them Appalachian Power Co and Virginia Electric & Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024