Tree removal in Penbrook, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Penbrook that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 25, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,270 households live in Penbrook. About a quarter of the homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1942. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Penbrook, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 34 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 Dauphin County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PPL Electric Utilities Corp; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024