Tree removal in Kill Devil Hills, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Kill Devil Hills that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 27, 2024; March 12, 2022; and August 1, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,320 households live in Kill Devil Hills. About eight 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 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Kill Devil Hills, averages 28 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Dare County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Cape Hatteras Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024