Tree removal in Takoma Park, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 21 storm reports near Takoma Park that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; July 15, 2024; and July 29, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,790 households live in Takoma Park. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1954.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Takoma Park, averages 84 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 17 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 Montgomery County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and Potomac Electric Power Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024