Tree removal in Urbana, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Urbana that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 3, 2024; June 30, 2024; and August 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,290 households live in Urbana. About four 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 2007.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Urbana, 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 Frederick County, among them The Potomac Edison Company and Thurmont Municipal Light Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024