Tree removal in Portland, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Portland that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 18, 2025; May 26, 2024; and June 17, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,910 households live in Portland. 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 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Portland, averages 80 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Sumner County, among them City of Gallatin and Cumberland Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024