Tree removal in Babylon, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Babylon that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 25, 2022; August 22, 2019; and October 2, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,660 households live in Babylon. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1955.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Babylon, averages 88 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 23 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Suffolk County, among them Fishers Island Utility Co Inc and Long Island Power Authority; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024