Tree removal in Buffalo, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Buffalo that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024; June 26, 2023; and April 16, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 119,550 households live in Buffalo. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about four 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 7 miles from Buffalo, averages 124 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 50 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 Erie County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024