Tree removal in Gaithersburg, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Gaithersburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; July 22, 2020; and June 25, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 26,020 households live in Gaithersburg. About two in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1989. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Gaithersburg, averages 86 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Montgomery County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024