Tree removal in Dunkirk, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Dunkirk that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; May 27, 2022; and May 22, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 770 households live in Dunkirk. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and almost all the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Dunkirk, averages 103 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Calvert County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024