Tree removal in Oakland City, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Oakland City that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 19, 2025; July 28, 2025; and June 29, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 105 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 940 households live in Oakland City. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1947.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Oakland City, averages 103 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 33 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 Gibson County, among them AES Indiana and Duke Energy Indiana, LLC; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024