Tree removal in Spout Springs, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Spout Springs that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 8, 2019; July 6, 2017; and July 7, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,550 households live in Spout Springs. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2009.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Spout Springs, averages 77 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 Harnett County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Central Electric Membership Corp.; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024