Tree removal in South Hill, VA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near South Hill that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 9, 2023; April 14, 2021; and July 8, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,200 households live in South Hill. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from South Hill, averages 80 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 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 Mecklenburg County, among them Virginia Electric & Power Co and Mecklenburg Electric Cooperative; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024