Tree removal in Meyersdale, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Meyersdale that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 7, 2023; May 1, 2017; and June 16, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 890 households live in Meyersdale. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Meyersdale, averages 156 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 69 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Somerset County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024