Tree removal in Kings Mountain, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Kings Mountain that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 25, 2025; August 12, 2023; and August 18, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,410 households live in Kings Mountain. 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 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Kings Mountain, averages 60 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 Cleveland County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Broad River Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024