Tree removal in Valdese, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Valdese that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated December 29, 2024; July 21, 2018; and May 10, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,170 households live in Valdese. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1969.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Valdese, averages 91 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Burke County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Morganton; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024