Portsmouth city, Virginia
Tree removal in Portsmouth, VA
Tree removal in Portsmouth. The National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports with trees in them near Portsmouth from 2016 through 2025, the latest on June 19, 2025. About six in ten homes in Portsmouth are detached houses.
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What is particular to Portsmouth
Storm reports near Portsmouth
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Portsmouth that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; May 16, 2025; and June 25, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, measured.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 39,680 households live in Portsmouth. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1966.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Portsmouth, averages 51 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 one electric utility with service territory in Portsmouth city: Virginia Electric & Power Co.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Virginia state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Virginia State Corporation Commission, Bureau of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Portsmouth city.