Tree removal in Pacolet, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Pacolet that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 13, 2020 and May 28, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 960 households live in Pacolet. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1964.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Pacolet, averages 76 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 13 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 Spartanburg County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Lockhart Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024