Tree removal in Millers Creek, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Millers Creek that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; July 6, 2022; and June 2, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 720 households live in Millers Creek. About eight 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 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Millers Creek, averages 98 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 19 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Wilkes County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Blue Ridge Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024