Macon County, North Carolina
Tree removal in Highlands, NC
Tree removal in Highlands. The National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports with trees in them near Highlands from 2016 through 2025, the latest on July 5, 2024. About three quarters of the homes in Highlands are detached houses.
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What is particular to Highlands
Storm reports near Highlands
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Highlands that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 5, 2024 and August 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 720 households live in Highlands. About three quarters 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 1979.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Highlands, averages 115 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 33 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Macon County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Highlands; the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a North Carolina state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the North Carolina Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Macon County.
Where Highlands is
Nearby in Macon County
- Franklin 3 storm reports with trees