Tree removal in Highland-on-the-Lake, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Highland-on-the-Lake that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 20, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,510 households live in Highland-on-the-Lake. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1973.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Highland-on-the-Lake, averages 144 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 66 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