Tree removal in Alden, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Alden that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024 and June 20, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,170 households live in Alden. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Alden, averages 151 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 67 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Erie County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024