Tree removal in Hoosick Falls, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Hoosick Falls that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 10, 2025; August 4, 2022; and March 7, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,310 households live in Hoosick Falls. 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 1942.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Hoosick Falls, averages 156 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 74 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Rensselaer County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp..

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024