Tree removal in Buford, GA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Buford that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 8, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,220 households live in Buford. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1994.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Buford, averages 67 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 8 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 7 electric utilities with service territory in Gwinnett County, among them Georgia Power Co and City of Buford; the county page names the other 5.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024