Tree removal in Skaneateles, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Skaneateles that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 16, 2025 and July 13, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,200 households live in Skaneateles. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten 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 Skaneateles, averages 143 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Onondaga County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024