Tree removal in Franklin Furnace, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Franklin Furnace that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 22, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 480 households live in Franklin Furnace. About half the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Franklin Furnace, averages 106 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 30 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 Scioto County, among them Duke Energy Ohio Inc and Ohio Power Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024