Tree removal in Frankfort, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Frankfort that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 16, 2024; July 20, 2019; and October 15, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,060 households live in Frankfort. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Frankfort, averages 164 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 85 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Herkimer County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024