Tree removal in East Ridge, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near East Ridge that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 12, 2020 and June 26, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 9,580 households live in East Ridge. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1965.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from East Ridge, averages 56 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 Hamilton County, among them City of Chattanooga and Sequachee Valley Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024