Tree removal in Ridgeville, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Ridgeville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated January 9, 2024; August 3, 2022; and April 13, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 230 households live in Ridgeville. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about eight 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 6 miles from Ridgeville, averages 45 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 4 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 Dorchester County, among them Dominion Energy South Carolina, Inc and Berkeley Electric Coop Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024