Tree removal in Damascus, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Damascus that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 13, 2021; June 29, 2019; and June 2, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,840 households live in Damascus. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten 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 2 miles from Damascus, 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