Tree removal in Jim Thorpe, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Jim Thorpe that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 30, 2024; June 26, 2024; and April 14, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,960 households live in Jim Thorpe. About two thirds 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 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Jim Thorpe, averages 132 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 44 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Carbon County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Lehighton; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024