Tree removal in Reston, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Reston that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 12, 2025; June 19, 2025; and July 29, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 71 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 28,610 households live in Reston. About two 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 1983. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Reston, averages 99 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 23 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Fairfax County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Northern Virginia Elec Coop.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024