Tree removal in Herndon, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Herndon that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 14, 2023; May 27, 2022; and August 17, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,820 households live in Herndon. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1983.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Herndon, averages 102 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 25 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Fairfax County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Northern Virginia Elec Coop.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024