Tree removal in Lanham, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Lanham that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 2, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,250 households live in Lanham. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1969.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Lanham, averages 112 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 36 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 Prince George's County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024