Tree removal in Westminster, MD

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Westminster that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 28, 2023; March 31, 2022; and August 11, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,930 households live in Westminster. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1983. 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 13 miles from Westminster, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 40 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 Carroll County, among them Baltimore Gas & Electric Co and The Potomac Edison Company.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024