Tree removal in Meadville, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 20 storm reports near Meadville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2024; August 15, 2023; and July 26, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,730 households live in Meadville. About half the homes are detached houses and about three in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1950. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Meadville, averages 125 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 49 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 Crawford County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Northwestern Rural E C A, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024