Tree removal in New Bern, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near New Bern that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 17, 2022; April 13, 2020; and August 10, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 14,350 households live in New Bern. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from New Bern, averages 47 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 4 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Craven County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Carteret-Craven El Member Corp; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024