Tree removal in Belfast, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Belfast that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 30, 2024; April 22, 2023; and July 22, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 460 households live in Belfast. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1960.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Belfast, averages 119 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 35 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Northampton County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PPL Electric Utilities Corp.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024