Tree removal in Fairchance, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Fairchance that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 12, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 740 households live in Fairchance. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six 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 Fairchance, averages 129 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 47 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Fayette County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024