Tree removal in Orchard Park, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Orchard Park, NY that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated September 5, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,500 households live in Orchard Park, NY. About six 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 1965.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Orchard Park, NY, averages 162 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 70 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Erie County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024