Tree removal in South Pittsburg, TN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near South Pittsburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 27, 2024; July 2, 2023; and December 11, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,270 households live in South Pittsburg. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten 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 5 miles from South Pittsburg, averages 79 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 13 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 Marion County, among them City of Chattanooga and Duck River Elec Member Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024