Tree removal in Port Royal, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Port Royal that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 18, 2025; July 7, 2021; and June 20, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,730 households live in Port Royal. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about four in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2008. 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 3 miles from Port Royal, averages 13 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 1 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Beaufort County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Palmetto Electric Coop Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024