Tree removal in Sykesville, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Sykesville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 22, 2024; August 7, 2023; and June 3, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,470 households live in Sykesville. About half the homes are detached houses and about seven 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 16 miles from Sykesville, averages 98 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 27 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Carroll County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and The Potomac Edison Company.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024