Tree removal in East Rockaway, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near East Rockaway that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2019 and July 25, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,810 households live in East Rockaway. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1951.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from East Rockaway, averages 89 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 22 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 Nassau County, among them Long Island Power Authority and Village of Freeport; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024