Tree removal in Braddock, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Braddock that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 29, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 740 households live in Braddock. About half the homes are detached houses and about three in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940. 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 1 mile from Braddock, averages 92 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 28 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 Allegheny County, among them Duquesne Light Co and FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024