Tree removal in Pleasant Gap, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Pleasant Gap that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 22, 2022; July 7, 2021; and April 13, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,240 households live in Pleasant Gap. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Pleasant Gap, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 Centre 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