Tree removal in Riner, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Riner that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 30, 2024; July 5, 2024; and June 16, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 67 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 360 households live in Riner. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2003.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Riner, averages 104 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 30 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Montgomery County, among them Appalachian Power Co and City of Radford; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024