Tree removal in Franklinton, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Franklinton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 13, 2025; May 13, 2025; and July 27, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 920 households live in Franklinton. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1956.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Franklinton, averages 98 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 17 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 Franklin County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Town of Louisburg; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024