Tree removal in Mount Pleasant, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Mount Pleasant that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 12, 2023 and June 23, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,060 households live in Mount Pleasant. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1953.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Mount Pleasant, averages 130 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 49 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 Westmoreland County, among them Duquesne Light Co and FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024