Tree removal in Nassau, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Nassau that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 20, 2025; June 29, 2021; and August 3, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 460 households live in Nassau. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds 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 7 miles from Nassau, averages 144 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 65 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 Rensselaer County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp..

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024