Tree removal in Mentor, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Mentor that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 1, 2025; August 6, 2024; and July 20, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 20,030 households live in Mentor. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Mentor, averages 100 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 32 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 Lake County, among them Cleveland Electric Illum Co and City of Painesville.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024