Tree removal in Punxsutawney, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Punxsutawney that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 1, 2023; August 29, 2022; and March 31, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,640 households live in Punxsutawney. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1953.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Punxsutawney, averages 152 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 63 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 Jefferson County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and REA Energy Coop Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024