Tree removal in Oneonta, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Oneonta that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 4, 2022; July 24, 2022; and July 12, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,800 households live in Oneonta. About four in ten homes are detached houses and about half 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 3 miles from Oneonta, averages 167 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 78 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 Otsego County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024