Tree removal in New Market, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near New Market that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; July 22, 2019; and July 27, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 470 households live in New Market. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and almost all the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2006.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from New Market, averages 84 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 19 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 Frederick County, among them The Potomac Edison Company and Thurmont Municipal Light Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024