Surry County, North Carolina
Tree removal in Elkin, NC
Tree removal in Elkin. The National Weather Service logged 14 storm reports with trees in them near Elkin from 2016 through 2025, the latest on July 9, 2025. About two thirds of the homes in Elkin are detached houses.
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What is particular to Elkin
Storm reports near Elkin
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 14 storm reports near Elkin that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 9, 2025; September 13, 2023; and September 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 85 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 1,640 households live in Elkin. 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 1967.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Elkin, averages 112 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 26 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Surry County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a North Carolina state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the North Carolina Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Surry County.
Where Elkin is
Nearby in Surry County
- Dobson 11 storm reports with trees
- Toast 6 storm reports with trees
- Mount Airy 6 storm reports with trees
- Pilot Mountain 15 storm reports with trees
- Flat Rock 4 storm reports with trees