Tree removal in Elloree, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Elloree that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 7, 2023; June 15, 2021; and June 28, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 86 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 440 households live in Elloree. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1947.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 17 miles from Elloree, averages 47 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 4 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 Orangeburg County, among them Aiken Electric Coop Inc and City of Orangeburg; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024