Tree removal in Chesapeake Beach, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Chesapeake Beach that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 31, 2024 and July 17, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,560 households live in Chesapeake Beach. About six 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 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Chesapeake Beach, averages 103 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 27 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 Calvert County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024