Tree removal in Mechanicsville, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Mechanicsville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; June 8, 2022; and May 27, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 570 households live in Mechanicsville. About eight 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 1993.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Mechanicsville, averages 98 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 21 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 one electric utility with service territory in St. Mary's County: Southern Maryland Elec Coop Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024