Tree removal in Sea Breeze, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Sea Breeze that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 30, 2023; April 13, 2020; and June 2, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 860 households live in Sea Breeze. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1996.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Sea Breeze, averages 41 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 one electric utility with service territory in New Hanover County: Duke Energy Progress.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024