Tree removal in Wingate, NC

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Wingate that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 19, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 950 households live in Wingate. 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 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Wingate, averages 69 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 Union County, among them Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC and City of Monroe; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024