Tree removal in Lake Carmel, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Lake Carmel that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 12, 2023 and May 15, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,910 households live in Lake Carmel. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1956.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Lake Carmel, averages 137 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 53 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 Putnam County, among them Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp and New York State Elec & Gas Corp.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024