Tree removal in Dayton, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Dayton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 11, 2025; June 19, 2025; and July 21, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 780 households live in Dayton. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1964.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Dayton, averages 123 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 39 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Rockingham County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and City of Harrisonburg; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024