Tree removal in Portsmouth, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Portsmouth that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 13, 2022; June 16, 2019; and July 20, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,330 households live in Portsmouth. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1947. 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 Portsmouth, averages 106 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 30 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Scioto County, among them Duke Energy Ohio Inc and Ohio Power Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024