Tree removal in Ridgeway, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 22 storm reports near Ridgeway that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 1, 2025; March 5, 2025; and June 30, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 92 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 300 households live in Ridgeway. About three quarters 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 1979.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Ridgeway, averages 119 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 33 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 Henry County, among them Appalachian Power Co and Virginia Electric & Power Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024