Tree removal in Jenkintown, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Jenkintown that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 3, 2025; June 26, 2024; and August 19, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,930 households live in Jenkintown. About three 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 1940. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Jenkintown, averages 88 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 Montgomery County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PECO Energy Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024