Tree removal in Lackawanna, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Lackawanna that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 12, 2021; August 11, 2021; and August 4, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,480 households live in Lackawanna. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the 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 10 miles from Lackawanna, averages 124 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 50 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