Tree removal in Sinking Spring, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Sinking Spring that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 16, 2024; September 7, 2023; and August 12, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,700 households live in Sinking Spring. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1970. 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 4 miles from Sinking Spring, averages 125 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 43 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 Berks County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and PPL Electric Utilities Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024