Tree removal in Dover, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Dover that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2024; July 28, 2023; and June 3, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 810 households live in Dover. 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 1972.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Dover, averages 125 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in York County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PECO Energy Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024