Essex County, New York
Tree removal in Lake Placid, NY
Tree removal in Lake Placid. The National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports with trees in them near Lake Placid from 2016 through 2025, the latest on July 13, 2025. About half the homes in Lake Placid are detached houses.
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What is particular to Lake Placid
Storm reports near Lake Placid
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Lake Placid that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 13, 2025; May 29, 2020; and May 1, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 1,260 households live in Lake Placid. About half the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1972.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Lake Placid, averages 184 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 100 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Essex County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a New York state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the New York State Department of Financial Services.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Essex County.
Where Lake Placid is
Nearby in Essex County
- Saranac Lake
- Mineville
- Keeseville
- Port Henry 3 storm reports with trees
- Ticonderoga 5 storm reports with trees