Tree removal in Carthage, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Carthage that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated February 16, 2025; August 3, 2024; and June 26, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,130 households live in Carthage. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1992.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Carthage, averages 62 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Moore County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Central Electric Membership Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024