Highlands County, Florida
Tree removal in Lake Placid, FL
Tree removal in Lake Placid. The National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports with trees in them near Lake Placid from 2016 through 2025, the latest on October 9, 2024. About half the homes in Lake Placid are detached houses.
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What is particular to Lake Placid
Storm reports near Lake Placid
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Lake Placid that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 9, 2024; April 19, 2019; and January 17, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 1,070 households live in Lake Placid. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1984.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 4 electric utilities with service territory in Highlands County, among them Duke Energy Florida, LLC and Florida Power & Light Co; the county page names the other 2.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Florida state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Florida limits local tree permits when an arborist documents that a tree is an unacceptable risk. Permits
Insurance complaints go to the Florida Department of Financial Services.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Highlands County.