Tree removal in Hanover, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Hanover that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 10, 2021; July 22, 2020; and July 6, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,290 households live in Hanover. About half the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1954.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Hanover, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 40 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 York County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PECO Energy Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024