Every figure here comes from a public record. We publish these because we run one tree company per territory, and a contractor deciding whether this county is worth their week should see the same numbers we do.
Every figure on this page comes from a public record, and the source for each is listed at the bottom. Data as of 2026-09-22.
NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database. Counts each event whose own narrative describes a tree or limb coming down, and excludes narratives that explicitly report none. 2026 is a partial year.
We text homeowners in your ZIP codes, a trained setter qualifies the ones who reply, and a quote appointment lands on your calendar with the homeowner's name, address and what they want done. One tree company per territory: while you are running, nobody else is marketed to those homeowners.
A qualified appointment is a homeowner in your ZIPs who replied, described work with at least $500 of potential, gave an address we could place, and took a time on your calendar that a person verified. We sell the territory and the work that goes into it — never a number of appointments.
27,990 homes in Sumter County are owner-occupied, 68% of all occupied households, per the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2024 5-year estimates. Owner-occupied is the number that matters for tree work, because the person who decides on a removal and pays for it lives at the address.
160 of 301 storm reports in Sumter County since 2015 describe a tree or limb coming down, which is 53%. The count is from NOAA's Storm Events Database and includes only events whose own narrative names a downed tree, so it understates rather than inflates.
26 tree service companies were found operating in Sumter County. 11 of them, 42%, have no website at all. That is the gap these briefs measure: homeowners search first, and a company with no web presence is not in the result they see.
A homeowner in your ZIP codes who replied, described work with at least $500 of potential, gave an address we could place, and took a time on your calendar that a person verified. We sell the territory and the work that goes into it, never a number of appointments.
One tree company works a territory at a time, so it depends on whether Sumter County is already taken. The territory checker on this site answers that for a specific ZIP code. While you are running, nobody else is marketed to those homeowners.
Every figure on this page comes from a public record. Households, tenure, home value and housing age are U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2024 5-year estimates. Storm counts are NOAA's Storm Events Database. The full source list, with table numbers and the limits of each, is at the bottom of the page. Data as of 2026-09-22.
We did not test where any company ranks in local search, count reviews, price the market, or read the local tree ordinances, all of which matter to a bid. Census figures are survey estimates with margins of error, not counts. Storm narratives are written by forecast offices and vary in detail, so the tree-down count is a floor rather than a total.