Tree removal in Harris Hill, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Harris Hill that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated March 29, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,600 households live in Harris Hill. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Harris Hill, averages 124 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 50 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 Erie County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024