Tree removal in Fort Washington, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Fort Washington that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 19, 2021; July 21, 2021; and June 4, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,260 households live in Fort Washington. About seven 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 1968.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Fort Washington, averages 92 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 24 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Montgomery County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PECO Energy Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024