Tree removal in Elkton, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Elkton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 28, 2025; July 17, 2024; and June 26, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,240 households live in Elkton. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1978.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Elkton, averages 136 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 61 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Rockingham County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and City of Harrisonburg; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024