Tree removal in Berlin, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Berlin that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated February 12, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 950 households live in Berlin. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1957.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Berlin, averages 156 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 69 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 Somerset County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024