Tree removal in Scranton, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Scranton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 19, 2025; April 19, 2025; and July 27, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 30,340 households live in Scranton. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Scranton, 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 Lackawanna County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Blakely; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024