Tree removal in Cape Carteret, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Cape Carteret that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 8, 2025; September 16, 2024; and May 9, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,120 households live in Cape Carteret. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about eight 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 12 miles from Cape Carteret, 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