Tree removal in Orwigsburg, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Orwigsburg that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 30, 2025; April 22, 2023; and June 9, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,040 households live in Orwigsburg. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1957.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Orwigsburg, averages 121 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 40 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Schuylkill County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Schuylkill Haven; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024