Tree removal in Sandy Springs, GA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Sandy Springs that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated February 16, 2025; August 7, 2023; and July 20, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 52,040 households live in Sandy Springs. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1988. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Sandy Springs, averages 49 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 4 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 9 electric utilities with service territory in Fulton County, among them Georgia Power Co and City of College Park; the county page names the other 7.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024