Tree removal in Southmont, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Southmont that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 28, 2025; April 22, 2025; and August 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 640 households live in Southmont. About eight 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 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Southmont, averages 71 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 10 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 Davidson County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Lexington; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024