Tree removal in Christiansburg, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Christiansburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 31, 2024; June 17, 2022; and June 13, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 9,810 households live in Christiansburg. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1989.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Christiansburg, averages 104 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 30 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 Montgomery County, among them Appalachian Power Co and City of Radford; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024