Tree removal in Fairmount, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Fairmount that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 29, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 730 households live in Fairmount. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1984.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Fairmount, averages 82 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 19 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Hamilton County, among them City of Chattanooga and Sequachee Valley Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024