Tree removal in Essex, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Essex that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 17, 2021; June 14, 2021; and April 13, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 16,020 households live in Essex. About four 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 1964.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Essex, averages 52 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 one electric utility with service territory in Baltimore County: Baltimore Gas & Electric Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024