Tree removal in Wedgefield, SC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Wedgefield that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 7, 2023; August 3, 2022; and June 17, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 680 households live in Wedgefield. About a quarter of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1991. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Wedgefield, averages 47 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Sumter County, among them Duke Energy Progress and Black River Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024