Tree removal in Rushmere, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Rushmere that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 22, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 470 households live in Rushmere. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1983.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Rushmere, averages 64 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 8 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 Isle of Wight County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and City of Franklin; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024