Tree removal in East Palestine, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near East Palestine that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 16, 2025; April 7, 2020; and June 18, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,000 households live in East Palestine. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1948.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from East Palestine, averages 131 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 41 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Columbiana County, among them Ohio Edison Co and Ohio Power Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024