Tree removal in Columbia, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Columbia that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 22, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 41,220 households live in Columbia. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1983.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Columbia, averages 86 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Howard County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and The Potomac Edison Company.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024