Tree removal in Hernando, FL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Hernando that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 21, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,310 households live in Hernando. About half the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Hernando, averages 16 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 1 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 Citrus County, among them Duke Energy Florida, LLC and Sumter Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024