Tree removal in Norwich, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Norwich that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 29, 2025; July 10, 2024; and July 20, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,960 households live in Norwich. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about four in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1944. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Norwich, averages 160 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 74 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Chenango County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024