Tree removal in Pottsville, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Pottsville that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 23, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,770 households live in Pottsville. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940. 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 11 miles from Pottsville, averages 139 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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