Tree removal in East Spencer, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near East Spencer that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 16, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 700 households live in East Spencer. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about half the 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 Spencer, averages 71 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 10 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Rowan County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024