Tree removal in Rockville, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Rockville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 1, 2025; May 16, 2025; and August 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 26,840 households live in Rockville. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1980.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Rockville, averages 86 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024