Tree removal in Chattanooga, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Chattanooga that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 27, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 77,920 households live in Chattanooga. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Chattanooga, averages 56 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 Hamilton County, among them City of Chattanooga and Sequachee Valley Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024