Tree removal in Oil City, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Oil City that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 27, 2025; June 18, 2025; and November 20, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,990 households live in Oil City. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten 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 Oil City, averages 142 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 55 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 Venango County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Central Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024