Tree removal in Mount Cobb, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Mount Cobb that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 15, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 620 households live in Mount Cobb. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1980.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Mount Cobb, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Lackawanna County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Blakely; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024