Tree removal in North Laurel, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near North Laurel that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 8, 2025; July 7, 2023; and June 3, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,720 households live in North Laurel. About a third 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 1993. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from North Laurel, averages 86 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Howard County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and The Potomac Edison Company.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024