Tree removal in Dumfries, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Dumfries that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 27, 2025; June 26, 2025; and July 29, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,740 households live in Dumfries. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1982.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Dumfries, averages 76 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 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 Prince William County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Northern Virginia Elec Coop.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024