Tree removal in Brightwaters, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Brightwaters that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 30, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,030 households live in Brightwaters. Almost all the homes are detached houses and almost all the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1945.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Brightwaters, 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