Tree removal in Irmo, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Irmo that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024; September 7, 2023; and August 15, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,740 households live in Irmo. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1984.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Irmo, averages 95 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 21 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 Richland County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Fairfield Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024