Tree removal in Cricket, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Cricket that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 14, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 820 households live in Cricket. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1971. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Cricket, averages 104 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 21 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Wilkes County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024