Tree removal in Icard, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Icard that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 28, 2023; May 26, 2022; and July 31, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,030 households live in Icard. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1981.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Icard, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Burke County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Morganton; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024