Tree removal in Santee, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Santee that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 11, 2021 and February 15, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 430 households live in Santee. About half the homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Santee, averages 47 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Orangeburg County, among them Aiken Electric Coop Inc and City of Orangeburg; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024