Rutherford County, North Carolina
Tree removal in Lake Lure, NC
Tree removal in Lake Lure. The National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports with trees in them near Lake Lure from 2016 through 2025, the latest on October 8, 2017. About seven in ten homes in Lake Lure are detached houses.
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What is particular to Lake Lure
Storm reports near Lake Lure
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Lake Lure that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 8, 2017 and July 18, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 820 households live in Lake Lure. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1986.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Lake Lure, averages 83 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 11 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 6 electric utilities with service territory in Rutherford County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Duke Energy Progress; the county page names the other 4.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a North Carolina state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the North Carolina Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Rutherford County.
Where Lake Lure is
Nearby in Rutherford County
- Rutherfordton 8 storm reports with trees
- Spindale 1 storm report with trees
- Forest City, NC 5 storm reports with trees