Tree removal in Hancock, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Hancock that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated November 5, 2025; July 31, 2025; and April 19, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 790 households live in Hancock. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 15 miles from Hancock, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 39 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 Washington County, among them The Potomac Edison Company and Hagerstown Light Department; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024