Tree removal in Sumter, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Sumter that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 4, 2025; January 9, 2024; and June 6, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 16,280 households live in Sumter. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1986.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Sumter, averages 56 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 Sumter County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Black River Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024