Tree removal in Potomac, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Potomac that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; May 27, 2024; and July 29, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 16,280 households live in Potomac. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Potomac, averages 86 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Montgomery County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024