Tree removal in Trinity, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Trinity that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated January 9, 2024; August 6, 2023; and June 26, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,630 households live in Trinity. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Trinity, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Randolph County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and Duke Energy Progress; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024