Tree removal in Rawls Springs, MS

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Rawls Springs that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 13, 2024; January 9, 2024; and April 17, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 650 households live in Rawls Springs. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1982.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Rawls Springs, averages 32 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 Forrest County, among them Mississippi Power Co and Dixie Electric Power Assn; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024