Tree removal in Pelzer, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Pelzer that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 26, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 730 households live in Pelzer. About nine 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 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Pelzer, averages 70 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Anderson County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024