Tree removal in Ridge, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Ridge that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 11, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,630 households live in Ridge. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1979.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Ridge, averages 118 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 36 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 Suffolk County, among them Fishers Island Utility Co Inc and Long Island Power Authority; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024