Tree removal in Valparaiso, FL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Valparaiso that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated November 30, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,760 households live in Valparaiso. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Valparaiso, averages 36 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 Okaloosa County, among them Florida Power & Light Co and Choctawhatche Elec Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024