Tree removal in Kingsport, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Kingsport that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 4, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 24,670 households live in Kingsport. About two thirds 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 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Kingsport, averages 83 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 18 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 Sullivan County, among them Kingsport Power Co and City of Bristol; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024