Tree removal in Red Oak, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Red Oak that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 18, 2024 and August 14, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,490 households live in Red Oak. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Red Oak, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 Nash County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Virginia Electric & Power Co; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024