Tree removal in Osgood, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Osgood that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 22, 2024; March 7, 2022; and June 29, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 640 households live in Osgood. 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 1953. 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 13 miles from Osgood, averages 128 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 47 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 Ripley County, among them Duke Energy Indiana, LLC and Decatur County Rural E M C; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024