Tree removal in Myrtle Beach, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Myrtle Beach that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated February 7, 2020; May 31, 2019; and September 16, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 17,250 households live in Myrtle Beach. About four 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 1992.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Myrtle Beach, averages 38 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 Horry County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Horry Electric Coop Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024