Tree removal in Mexico Beach, FL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Mexico Beach that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 23, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 570 households live in Mexico Beach. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2003.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 17 miles from Mexico Beach, averages 23 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 1 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 Bay County, among them Duke Energy Florida, LLC and Florida Power & Light Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024