Tree removal in Forty Fort, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Forty Fort that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 19, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,750 households live in Forty Fort. About six 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 1941.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Forty Fort, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 Luzerne County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and UGI Utilities, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024