Tree removal in Forest Acres, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Forest Acres, SC that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 15, 2023; July 9, 2023; and July 7, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,960 households live in Forest Acres, SC. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1965.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Forest Acres, SC, averages 33 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 Richland County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024