Tree removal in Ranlo, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Ranlo that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 1, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,650 households live in Ranlo. About nine 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 2001.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Ranlo, averages 61 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 8 electric utilities with service territory in Gaston County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Cherryville; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024