Tree removal in High Point, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near High Point that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated January 9, 2024; July 5, 2020; and April 12, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 45,040 households live in High Point. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from High Point, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Guilford County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Duke Energy Progress; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024