Tree removal in Riverdale, GA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Riverdale that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 18, 2024; July 29, 2024; and March 1, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,920 households live in Riverdale. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1991.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Riverdale, averages 49 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 Clayton County, among them Georgia Power Co and Central Georgia El Member Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024