Tree removal in Fort Covington, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Fort Covington that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 13, 2024; June 21, 2021; and March 20, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 410 households live in Fort Covington. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1964.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Fort Covington, averages 166 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 93 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 Franklin County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024