Tree removal in Mechanicsburg, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Mechanicsburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 16, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,210 households live in Mechanicsburg. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1960.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Mechanicsburg, averages 102 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 28 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 Cumberland County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PPL Electric Utilities Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024