By planting bushes and trees at least 25 feet from the power line, you.

To protect your family, your property and your power service, homeowners should keep trees trimmed away from power lines. If you have questions, contact Tri-County Electric at or toll free at Remember call before you dig!

Why we Trim Trees. Trees are beautiful and help our environment, but they are also good conductors of electricity. Tree branches growing into power lines are a fire danger and one of the major causes of outages. To prevent this, Tri-County Electric Cooperative works to maintain the right-of-way for you, our member-owners. The cooperative does a majority of our tree trimming during spring, summer, and after storms. Before any tree removal or tree trimming near power lines, give us a call at or send your request online and we will look at it to see if we can assist you or if a private tree service is necessary.

Tri-County has a 30 foot right-of-way on high-voltage (primary) power shrubpruning.bara Right-of-Way, Tri-County EMC’s trimming contractor, trims trees around primary power lines every years. Our goal is to reach every line on our system - about 2, miles - and then start again. Despite our best efforts to keep trees near our lines trimmed on a regular basis, strong winds can cause those trees to make contact with our wires.

When that happens, your lights may dim, or you might lose power for a few seconds. It is very important that our members allow us to trim trees near power lines to minimize these types of disruptions.