Tree removal in La Porte, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near La Porte that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 30, 2025; July 23, 2022; and July 29, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,880 households live in La Porte. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1954.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from La Porte, averages 119 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 46 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in LaPorte County, among them Indiana Michigan Power Co and Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024