Tree removal in Oakland, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Oakland that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 25, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 68 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 600 households live in Oakland. 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 1950.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Oakland, averages 134 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 51 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 Lawrence County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Borough of Ellwood City; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024