Tree removal in Peru, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Peru that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 23, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 720 households live in Peru. About seven 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 1959.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Peru, averages 152 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 80 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 Clinton 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