Tree removal in New Concord, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near New Concord that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 29, 2025; July 15, 2024; and April 17, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 700 households live in New Concord. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1959. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from New Concord, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 36 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Muskingum County, among them Duke Energy Ohio Inc and Ohio Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024