Tree removal in Signal Mountain, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Signal Mountain that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 20, 2023; February 12, 2020; and May 4, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,290 households live in Signal Mountain. 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 1976.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Signal Mountain, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 16 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 Hamilton County, among them City of Chattanooga and Sequachee Valley Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024