Tree removal in Panama City Beach, FL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Panama City Beach that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated February 15, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,470 households live in Panama City Beach. About a quarter 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 2000. 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 10 miles from Panama City Beach, averages 14 nights a year with a low at or below 32°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 Bay County, among them Duke Energy Florida, LLC and Florida Power & Light Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024