Tree removal in Chester, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Chester that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 18, 2025; May 30, 2025; and August 2, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 9,200 households live in Chester. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Chester, averages 85 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 15 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 Chesterfield County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Southside Electric Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024