Pickens County, South Carolina
Tree removal in Pickens, SC
Tree removal in Pickens. The National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports with trees in them near Pickens from 2016 through 2025, the latest on June 30, 2024. About seven in ten homes in Pickens are detached houses.
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What is particular to Pickens
Storm reports near Pickens
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Pickens that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 30, 2024; August 24, 2023; and August 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 1,190 households live in Pickens. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Pickens, averages 74 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 11 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Pickens County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Blue Ridge Electric Coop Inc; the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a South Carolina state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the South Carolina Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Pickens County.