Tree removal in Milton, FL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Milton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 10, 2024; June 18, 2023; and April 15, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,530 households live in Milton. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Milton, averages 21 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 Santa Rosa County, among them Florida Power & Light Co and Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024