Tree removal in Mount Airy, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Mount Airy that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 20, 2025; July 2, 2022; and June 17, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,930 households live in Mount Airy. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1967.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Mount Airy, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 25 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Surry County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Surry-Yadkin Elec Member Corp.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024