Tree removal in Bloomsburg, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Bloomsburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 11, 2021; May 15, 2018; and July 25, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,370 households live in Bloomsburg. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about four in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Bloomsburg, averages 127 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 44 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 Columbia County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Catawissa.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024