Tree removal in Clarksburg, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Clarksburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 7, 2023; November 15, 2020; and June 25, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,990 households live in Clarksburg. About half the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2010.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Clarksburg, averages 98 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Montgomery County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024