Tree removal in Menands, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Menands that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 16, 2019; August 7, 2019; and July 27, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,120 households live in Menands. About three in ten homes are detached houses and about three in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1972. 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 5 miles from Menands, averages 131 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 59 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 Albany County, among them Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024