Lancaster County, South Carolina
Tree removal in Elgin, SC
Tree removal in Elgin. The National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports with trees in them near Elgin from 2016 through 2025, the latest on August 15, 2023. About eight in ten homes in Elgin are detached houses.
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What is particular to Elgin
Storm reports near Elgin
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Elgin that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 15, 2023; May 24, 2020; and June 17, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 850 households live in Elgin. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 21 miles from Elgin, averages 50 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 6 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Lancaster County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Lynches River Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a South Carolina state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the South Carolina Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Lancaster County.
Where Elgin is
Nearby in Lancaster County
- Springdale
- Lancaster 10 storm reports with trees
- Irwin 1 storm report with trees
- Kershaw 8 storm reports with trees