Tree removal in Columbia City, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 15 storm reports near Columbia City that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; March 30, 2025; and September 20, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,380 households live in Columbia City. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Columbia City, averages 134 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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 8 electric utilities with service territory in Whitley County, among them Duke Energy Indiana, LLC and Indiana Michigan Power Co; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024